Bapanas Optimises Food Kiosks to Ensure Consumer Price Stability

The National Food Agency (Bapanas) is optimising Food Kiosks (Kios Pangan) across various regions to maintain price stability at the consumer level by providing quality staple foods with adequate supply at affordable prices. Director of Food Supply and Price Stabilisation at Bapanas, Maino Dwi Hartono, stated that the kiosks are developed to ensure the public can obtain staple foods at reasonable prices, with good quality and sufficient supply. Bapanas is ensuring that various food stabilisation instruments are effective down to the community level, including strengthening Food Kiosks as food distribution nodes offering various staple commodities at affordable prices. He noted that Food Kiosks are a strategic government instrument to bring food access closer to the public while maintaining consumer price stability through the Food Supply and Price Stabilisation (SPHP) programme. Maino added that the agency continues to engage relevant stakeholders, including food and non-food suppliers and Himbara banks, to support capital, ensuring the programme runs optimally and its benefits are genuinely felt by the public. He explained that the existence of Food Kiosks not only provides a more affordable shopping alternative but also opens business opportunities for the community, particularly MSMEs and small shop owners who need competitively priced food supplies. As of July 2026, the number of Food Kiosks developed has reached 2,987 units spread across 35 provinces and 160 regencies/cities, with further expansion planned to strengthen public access to safe, quality, and affordable food. This programme is one of the government’s food stabilisation instruments, alongside the Cheap Food Movement (GPM), Food Distribution Facilitation (FDP), SPHP rice distribution, and food aid. The strengthening of Food Kiosks comes amid an increasingly robust national food situation, with the government currently holding a record-high rice reserve of more than 5 million tonnes. With such solid food reserves, the government has greater capacity to intervene in maintaining supply and price stability across various regions. Maino revealed that staple commodities such as rice, cooking oil, sugar, wheat flour, eggs, chicken meat, and various vegetables are the most sought-after items at the Food Kiosks, as they are offered at prices more affordable than the market while maintaining good quality.