Cheap goods to stabilize prices

Cheap goods to stabilize prices

PEKANBARU, Riau: Riau provincial administration plans to sell
cheap basic food to several markets here ahead of the Idul Fitri
holiday, which marks the end of Ramadhan.

Emrizal Pakis, the head of the administration's Industry and
Trade Office, said on Monday that the operation was aimed at
stabilizing prices, which tend to soar ahead of Idul Fitri. Among
basic necessities to be sold are palm oil, sugar and wheat flour.
-- JP