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The price of rice or rice cheap consumed by small economic communities, which are not voters, aka the original group of people eating, rise above the general increase in rice prices, which consumed the middle and wealthy society. Cheap rice prices are reported during January 2010 increased 8.45 percent from Rp 5604 per kg to Rp 6078 per kg.

“This means the community groups that never promiscuous species eat only rice and stuffed it suffers from rice price increases is higher than rice consuming public,” said Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Rusman Heriawan in Jakarta, Monday (1 / 2 / 2010) as a monthly report on inflation, exports, imports, and economic indicators other.

BPS only classify two types of rice in the survey, the general rice and rice price. However, the main data consist of BPS kinds of rice based on the brand, say Ciherang or Cianjur.

Common rice prices during January 2010 was reported up from Rp 6938 per kg in December 2009 to $ 7482 per kilogram, an increase of 7.83 percent. Thus, the increase is lower than the average increase in the price of the cheapest rice consumption of the poor.

Only one of the most appropriate policy to reduce the price of rice consumed by the poor is raski market operations (rice for the poor). “Because this is a rice consuming public who buy the cheapest price of rice,” said Rusman.