Today's Food Prices 20 August in West Sumatra: Soybean and Red Chili Prices Increased
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- A Medium
- A Bigger
Prices of several food commodities in West Sumatra are observed to have risen today compared to yesterday.
According to data from the Ministry of Trade's Staple Goods Market Monitoring System (SP2KP Kemendag) as of Thursday (20/8/2026) at 19.32 WIB, out of 16 commodities, 6 prices rose while 4 decreased.
Commodities with price increases: beef hindquarter, large red chili, curly red chili, imported soybean, and shallot.
(Read: SPPG MBG Absorbed 2.4% of Non-Household Rice in Indonesia during 2025)
Meanwhile, prices for commodities including broiler chicken eggs, bulk palm cooking oil, Honan garlic, and red cayenne pepper decreased compared to yesterday.
Large red chili recorded the highest price increase of IDR 1,600 (4.0%) to IDR 41,567 per kg. Red cayenne pepper saw the deepest drop of IDR 708 (1.28%) to IDR 54,518 per kg.
Below is the complete price list for 16 food commodities in West Sumatra per SP2KP Kemendag 20 August 2026 19.32 WIB:
- Beef Hindquarter: IDR 148,389 / kg (+0.04% increase)
- Red Cayenne Pepper: IDR 54,518 / kg (-1.28% decrease)
- Large Red Chili: IDR 41,567 / kg (+4.0% increase)
- Curly Red Chili: IDR 39,435 / kg (+2.03% increase)
- Broiler Chicken Meat: IDR 37,743 / kg (+1.67% increase)
- Honan Garlic: IDR 35,168 / kg (-0.55% decrease)
- Shallot: IDR 28,448 / kg (+0.73% increase)
- Broiler Chicken Eggs: IDR 27,956 / kg (-0.31% decrease)
- Premium Packaged Palm Cooking Oil: IDR 22,075 / liter (unchanged)
- Bulk Palm Cooking Oil: IDR 18,938 / liter (-0.04% decrease)
- Bulk Granulated Sugar: IDR 18,558 / kg (unchanged)
- Premium Rice: IDR 17,055 / kg (unchanged)
- Medium Rice: IDR 15,820 / kg (unchanged)
- Minyakita: IDR 15,794 / liter (unchanged)
- Imported Soybean: IDR 13,644 / kg (+0.02% increase)
- Wheat Flour: IDR 13,070 / kg (unchanged)
(Read: SPHP Rice Realization Reached 73.71% by Early August 2026, Distribution Details Here)
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| Economic growth | 5,11% | +0.08 | |
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| Gini rasio (Sem2) | 0,38 | 0.00 | |
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| Ekspor Migas (Jun) | 1,07 | +40.52 | |
| Impor Migas (Jun) | 4,56 | +0.96 | |
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| NTP (Jul) | 116,16 | +1.32 |