Pontianak – The Minister of Economy, Airlangga Hartarto accentuated regions to utilize digital trading platform in the series of BIMP-EAGA events to shorten the supply chain and to simplify the access to costumers, along with the infrastructure of harvest storage resilience and the expansion of planting the yards as the food resilience program in the household level.

“Then, the spending optimization must perlinsos and BTT, also the inflation control. TPID can accompany to optimize the village budget to support the regional food resilience,” Airlangga said.

Besides food commodity, the transportation sector also historically increased ahead of the end of the year.

He added that government needs to ensure enough fleet availability and flight frequency to anticipate end-year demand, and to do communication policy effectively with every party to keep the inflation expectation in the Christmas and New Year.

Furthermore, the Ministry of Transportation will also evaluate the fuel surcharge policy to control the increase of flight fee during the 2022 Christmas and 2023 New Year.

The event was continued with the distribution of KUR of 3.1 billion rupiahs symbolically to 10 KUR debtors in Pontianak to support food resilience. The distribution was done by Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Bank Mandiri, Bank Negara Indonesia, Bank Syariah Indonesia, and Bank Kalimantan Barat that includes the trading or industry sector, agriculture sector, plantation sector, and fishery sector.