Prices of some staple goods crept up ahead of Christmas Holidays and New Year
in Indonesia. The price increase is expected to continue to occur even until next
year. As for some basic needs that have gone up including eggs, chicken pieces,
red pepper has increased significantly. Where, before sugar is sold at Rp 8800 per
kilogram, are now sold at Rp. 10,000 per kilogram. While the import price per
kilogram stable at Rp 55 thousand. The merchants claim the price increase due to
the declining number of supply, resulting in prices creeping up. Other factors of a
number of production centers of crop failure due to high rainfall. In traditional
markets kosambi this instance, the price of red chillies increased significantly, ie,
thirty-two thousand dollars per kilogram. Whereas the two previous weeks, the
price of red chillies only twenty thousand dollars per kilogram.