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Board Economics
Re: I wonder if food prices in your country have also increased?
by
TelolettOm
on 11/09/2023, 23:51:35 UTC
After the Covid-19 outbreak, the economic crisis has increased in my country, namely Indonesia, until now economic inflation cannot be avoided, where the price of food needs has increased so sharply that it has had a huge impact on the lower middle class, even though the government has made recovery efforts.  through community welfare assistance programs, namely BLT and other social assistance, but this seems to be in vain because food needs are increasing while monthly income or wages do not support it at all because they do not increase, perhaps this is the main cause of inflation, for example food prices  such as eggs increasing from 45 thousand to 55-58 thousand per kilogram, not to mention rice from 18 thousand to 22-25 thousand per kilogram, and many other types of food also increased,
I also live in Indonesia, I know we are in the economic crisis since the pandemic happening. Yes, our government already made some efforts, but I don't think they made effective solutions. BLT is the example of a useless effort, it is just an instant money given by the government. Since the number of money is rather small, it sometimes only last few days. Even in certain cases, some people who got the BLT program spend all the money in a day. I think it is much better if the government provide the jobs for the people. When the people get regular jobs, they can get the money themselves. They can get the foods with their own efforts.