I ask all to observe, monitor, and input daily prices, and to be even more diligent in visiting markets.
Grobogan, Central Java (ANTARA) - Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo has asked all city and district government stakeholders to strengthen the monitoring of the prices of basic commodities in markets in order to curb inflation in the province.

"I ask all to observe, monitor, and input daily prices, and to be even more diligent in visiting markets," he said during a working visit here on Friday.

He asked all parties to strengthen monitoring of the daily prices of basic commodities through the SiHati application.

Pranowo said that each city or district government should immediately seek alternatives if they detect several food commodities, especially those whose prices are volatile, whose supplies could potentially be disrupted or which are likely to cause inflation.

The alternatives could be obtained by cooperating with regions closest to Central Java, such as East Java and West Java.

He further said that cooperation with other regions was one of the alternatives for jointly curbing inflation.

"We can do this together because several commodities are also sent to Kalimantan. There are some that are sent to Sumatra. This is what we are trying to continuously monitor. The SiHati application can be used for daily monitoring," he added.

Pranowo also urged the inflation control team to be more diligent and disciplined in monitoring prices in markets and uploading data in real-time to the application saying they had missed mapping the prices of commodities in markets several times.

He gave the example of the price of cooking oil in markets some time ago, which had gone up, but after checking, it turned out that there had been some delays.

As of December 2022, Central Java's inflation was recorded at 5.63 percent, or higher than the national inflation rate of 5.5 percent.

The figure placed Central Java as the fourth region with the highest inflation after East Java, Yogyakarta, and West Java.

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