#food commodities

Collection of food commodities news, found 449 news.

Inflation rate may drop to below five percent: BI

Bank Indonesia predicts the rate of inflation may be below five percent this year if no new fuel price policy is ...

RI main pillar of ASEAN food resilience

Indonesia is the main pillar for the creation of food resilience in the ASEAN region, vice rector of the Bogor ...

Pope deplores food commodities speculation

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday denounced commodities market speculation and called for international action to ensure ...

BI maintains reference rate at 6.75 percent

Bank Indonesia (BI, the central bank) on Tuesday decided to maintain its reference rate at 6.75 percent as well as ...

Govt believes inflation to remain under control

The government believes inflation could be controlled despite the rising world oil prices as a result of political ...

Indonesia`s economic growth unaffected by oil price surge

Although the world oil price in Asia hovered near $105 per barrel on Tuesday a banker in Jakarta expressed the belief ...

President orders sharpened watch over rising world oil prices

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa to keep a ...

Govt keeps monitoring global oil prices

The Indonesian government keeps monitoring the movements of global crude prices after they rose 21 percent in the past ...

Indonesia expects G20 meeting to press food speculators

Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo has expressed hope the upcoming G-20 meeting in Paris will be able to put pressure ...

Govt asks banks not to raise lending rates

The government has asked national banks not to increase their lending rates following Bank Indonesia (BI)`s decision ...

BI: Rupiah can strengthen below Rp9,000 per dollar

Bank Indonesia (BI) said the rupiah still has a chance to strengthen below Rp9,000 per dollar following the central ...

Govt ready to open 2 million hectares of farm land

The government is ready to open two million hectares of farm land in anticipation of declining food production due to ...

Govt taking measures to curb basic necessary price spiral

As basic necessary prices are soaring, the government is planning to free certain food commodities from import duties ...

Free import duty to help offset food commodity prices

As prices are sky-rocketing at home, the government is planning to free certain food commodities from import duties in ...