Inflation Still Safe

APPROACHING Idul Ftri post-fasting holidays, prices of goods and services start climbing. Consequently, the rate of inflation is also on the rise. The Central Board of Statistics (BPS) on Monday announced that inflation in October this year reached 0.56 percent. Cumulatively, inflation in the first 10 months of this year already registered 4.38 percent. Meanwhile, the year-on-year rate (October 2004 against October 2