AreaIndonesia

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date09/09/2015

Policy CategoryConsumption and marketing

Policy InstrumentFood subsidies

DescriptionAnnounced that the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) would distribute two additional monthly rations of rice to 15.5 million beneficiary households of the state's rice-for-the-poor (Raskin) programme in 2015. The initiative forms part of an economic stimulus package announced on 9 September 2015 and is meant to ease the impact of drought conditions on vulnerable groups.