Video: Securing Food Prices and Stocks, Bapanas Launches Affordable Food Programme

The National Food Agency (Bapanas) is ensuring the security of food stocks and price stability for rice, consumer sugar, cooking oil, meat, eggs, chillies, and shallots until April 2026. During Ramadan and ahead of Eid al-Fitr 1447 H/2026, food price stability is quite stable, although certain commodities like red cayenne chillies tend to remain high. This is due to rainy weather conditions disrupting the harvesting and distribution processes; it is hoped that the major harvest in the second week of Ramadan in production centres on Java and outer islands will stabilise prices. To maintain food stocks and prices, Bapanas is also strengthening government food reserves and regional food reserves, implementing the affordable food movement down to the sub-district/village level, and running the food distribution facilitation programme (FDP) to distribute food from surplus areas to deficit areas. What are Bapanas’s strategies to keep food price and stock stabilisation secure during Ramadan and Eid? For more details, watch the dialogue between Andi Shalini and the Chief Secretary of the National Food Agency (Bapanas), Sarwo Edhy, on Squawk Box, CNBC Indonesia (Wednesday, 04/03/2026).