Minister of Home Affairs Appreciation for rice prices dropped in 105 regions

Jakarta – Minister of Home Affairs (Minister of Home Affairs) Muhammad Tito Karnavian appreciated the performance of various related parties who managed to lower the price of rice in many regions. Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the rise in rice prices took place in the first week of September 2025 in 100 regions. This figure is greatly reduced compared to the fourth week of August 2025 which reached 214 regions. “The number of areas experienced by a drop in rice prices rose to 105 regions in the first week of September 2025. Previously, in the fourth week of August 2025, the reduction in rice prices took place only in 58 regions,” Tito said in a written statement on Monday (8/9/2025). Browse to continue with the content. It was transferred by the Minister of Home Affairs during the Regional Inflation Control Coordination Meeting, which is linked to the discussion of the evaluation of the support of the regional government in the 3 million home program and the implementation of the relief of poverty and eliminating extreme poverty. The forum took place today’s Bhakti Bhakti Praja Building (SBP) Home Affairs (Kemendagri) headquarters, Jakarta. He said that this achievement was not separated from the efforts made by the Regional Government (Pemda), along with related ministries/institutions to control the price of rice. One of the steps focused on 214 regions that previously experienced a price increase. This effort was carried out by the cheap market movement with the distribution of rice stabilization rice and food prices (SPHP) managed by Bulog. “It’s a good intervention,” he said. The Interior Ministry is still guarding the regional government to keep a cheap market movement constantly. He said the Interior Ministry also noted which regions have not yet run the program. This is important, so that the number of regions that have experienced an increase in rice prices still fall. “It is important for the benefit of small people’s stabilization of food, especially rice,” he concluded. As additional information, the meeting was attended to directly by a number of speakers, including the Coordinating Minister (Menko) for Community Empowerment (PM) Muhaimin Iskandar, Head of BPS Amalia AdinengGar Widyasanti, ACTING TASK (PKP) deputy ii for the eConomy and Food of the Economy and Food of the Economy and Food of the Economy and Food Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Edy Priyono, and Director General (Dirjen) of the Ministry of Housing Housing (Dirjen) of the Ministry of Housing and Settlement Areas (PKP). In addition, he also joined virtual other speakers of the ministries and related institutions. This meeting was also attended by the ranks of the Regional Government and the Forum for the Regional Leadership (Forkopimda) Coordination Forum. Also check out video: Minister of Agricultural Report to start dropping the price of rice (AKD/AKD)