Low Supply, High Prices

Indonesia is importing buffalo meat from India and beef from Brazil for Ramadan and Idul Fitri. Local meat becomes an alternative.

Retno Sulistyowati

February 27, 2023

ALTHOUGH it is not yet the Ramadan fasting month and Idul Fitri (end of fasting month celebration), the price of beef in North Kalimantan is already high at above Rp150,000 per kilogram. Jimmi, a beef trader at the Tanjung Selor Central Market, North Sumatra, offered his beef for Rp170,000 per kilogram. “The supply is low,” he told Tempo on Saturday, February 25. Jimmi complained that the supply of beef has been low since the foo

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