President Jokowi asked local governments to intervene in food transportation in their regions to reduce inflation (12/9). The President conveyed this while chairing the Inflation Control Discussion Meeting at the State Palace, Jakarta, Monday (12/9/2022). All regional heads were instructed to use 2% of the general transfer funds immediately to ward off inflation. In addition…
Logistics cost has not been normal due to the skyrocketing shipping freight rate amid the pandemic. The trend has just started to be steady since early as the shipping freight rate slows down, but it is still far higher than the pre-pandemic. And now another trigger factor will surely make the logistics cost higher, the…
Container truck business actors throughout Indonesia Members of the Special Port Transport Organda (Angsuspel) and the Indonesian Truck Entrepreneurs Association (Aptrindo) are raising the cost of container and non-container transportation by 17 to 30%. They did this following increased subsidized fuel (diesel) from IDR 5,150 to IDR 6,800 starting September 3, 2022. Chairman of Organda…
Since the government raised fuel prices, many business sectors have been affected. One of them is the Association of Indonesian Container Depots (ASDEKI). Reporting from Oceanweek.co.id, container depots will increase freight rates by 25%. “We are certain, because as users of trucking services, with the increase in fuel prices and the truck party has stated…
Logistics business actors stated that the increase in national logistics costs was unavoidable due to the domino effect of subsidized diesel fuel (BBM), which experienced an increase. This is because most national logistics players, including truck operators carrying goods and logistics, have been using subsidized fuel due to high market/consumer demands for low logistics costs….
