Rice Price in Wakatobi Reaches Rp1 Million Per Sack

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Rice Price in Wakatobi Reaches Rp1 Million Per Sack

Dream - The soaring price of rice has made the community restless. In the scattered videos on social media, it even shows people flocking to supermarkets to fight over buying rice.

One of the areas that is said to have experienced a surge in high rice prices is Wakatobi Regency, Southeast Sulawesi, which reached the price of Rp1 million per 50-kilogram sack.

Provincial Government Response

The following translation of the 'Bahasa' text to 'English' while preserving any HTML tags is: "This has prompted the Provincial Government (Pemprov) of Southeast Sulawesi to deploy a food task force to the area."

Secretary of the Regional Secretariat (Sekda) of Southeast Sulawesi, Asrun Lio, said that currently his staff has deployed a food task force to verify the truth of the skyrocketing price of rice in Wakatobi.

"Satgas has been deployed to conduct an investigation. God willing, we will soon find out the cause of the price increase,"
The text translates to: "The word Asrun is quoted from kendariaktual.com, Wednesday, February 29, 2024."

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Asrun conveyed that the initial suspicion from the Provincial Government of Sulawesi Tenggara regarding the cause of the increase in rice prices up to Rp 1 million per 50 kg sack is due to speculators hoarding rice.

Firm Action

According to him, if this initial suspicion is true, then the Provincial Government of Southeast Sulawesi will take strict action against the hoarders of rice.

"We will follow up on this initial allegation. If there is indeed a finding on the field, it must be dealt with firmly,"
he said.

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Rice Price in Wakatobi Reaches Rp1 Million Per Sack

Provincial Government Response

"Satgas has been deployed to conduct an investigation. God willing, we will soon find out the cause of the price increase,"The text translates to: "The word Asrun is quoted from kendariaktual.com, Wednesday, February 29, 2024."

Firm Action

"We will follow up on this initial allegation. If there is indeed a finding on the field, it must be dealt with firmly,"he said.

"Satgas has been deployed to conduct an investigation. God willing, we will soon find out the cause of the price increase,"
The text translates to: "The word Asrun is quoted from kendariaktual.com, Wednesday, February 29, 2024."

"We will follow up on this initial allegation. If there is indeed a finding on the field, it must be dealt with firmly,"
he said.