Now It’s Getting Worse: Vegetable Prices Have Risen Across the Board

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Traders at Waru Market, Lagoa, Koja, North Jakarta, are lamenting that prices for a range of food commodities, including vegetables and cooking spices, have continued to rise since Eid al-Fitr 2026.

Jaelani (40), one of the vegetable traders at Waru Market, said price increases have affected several vegetables such as lettuce, beans, and white cabbage.

‘It’s getting worse now. The prices of vegetables have all risen,’ Jaelani said when approached at the site on Friday, 22 May 2026.

Meanwhile, the price of green beans, which had previously been around Rp 15,000 per kilogram, has risen to around Rp 23,000 to Rp 25,000 per kilogram.

According to Jaelani, the price rises have been felt since after Eid and have not yet stabilised.

He suspects the stock of vegetables for retailers has diminished because many have been purchased by large buyers directly from the wholesale market.

‘We retailers deal in 50-kilogram units; we can only take 50 kilograms at a time. If you mean large catering operators, they buy in tonnes. Yesterday there was even someone who bought potatoes up to 1 tonne, and they brought it by car. They transported it in a car, you know,’ he said.

‘So it’s all distributed among retailers and gone, retailers can’t get any, which is why prices are high,’ Jaelani added.

He also noted that the prices of red onions and chilli peppers have continued to rise in recent times.

‘These prices are high across the board,’ Hendri said when approached by Kompas.com at the site on Friday.

He said red onions, which previously ranged from Rp 30,000 to Rp 40,000 per kilogram, have risen to around Rp 60,000 per kilogram.