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Jakarta, Spasi- id.com - Minister of Commerce (Mendag) Zulkifli Hasan admitted the price of selling eggs today is too expensive to reach Rp 31,000 per kilogram.
The condition has been reported to President Joko Widodo on Thursday (25 / 8 / 2022).
"I was also reporting about chicken eggs, which is Rp 31,000. It is indeed Rp 27,000 to Rp 28,000 profiters. But, if Rp is 31,000 a pound overpriced," he says the Presidential Palace complex.
Therefore, Zulkifli targets the price of chicken eggs can return to normal in the next two weeks. It could happen with an attempt to stabilize demand and increase production.
"Hopefully at the latest two weeks of normal chicken eggs. Even if we add chicken to the egg later," he said.
Zulkifli has already had a meeting with egg businessmen all over Indonesia, looking for the cause of the still high cost of chicken eggs. After that just reported in a meeting with President Jokowi.
One of the causes, he said, was the social aid distribution program by the Ministry of Social Services which was rapped for three months of rations where one of the packages had chicken eggs.
"It's a three-month rappel, some money. When there's a wish (chicken egg) in five days, the market is less. Normally the market is shocked. Usually when the supply is short, the price goes up,
According to the commodity price monitoring on the official Ministry of Commerce website per Thursday, chicken eggs are currently at Rp3300 per kilogram or up 6.83 percent compared to July 25, 2022.
