Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has clarified that the "No Pork No Lard" label used by restaurants does not guarantee that the products are halal-certified.

Kaila Yu – Glass bottles of jewel-toned liquids lined the walls, labeled lavender, cold brew coffee, and lychee.

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Businesses have called the government to rethink a plan to introduce a cap and impose a tax on certain ingredients used in processed foods, fearing the measures

Jakarta – Authorities in Aceh are planning to launch raids on restaurants in the province to seize food containing marijuana, as the conservative Muslim region is set to host the countr

Annisa Febiola, Antara, Jakarta – Head of the Indonesian Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs Association (GAPMMI) Adhi Lukman claimed that the implementation of excise on packaged sweetened

Jakarta – The Health Ministry will require companies to put sugar content on the labels of any beverage products sold in the country.

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – Retailers have expressed their unwillingness to comply with future government-led cheap food programs, citing unfinished business from a previous, similar program

Jakarta – Responding to reports of a scarcity of rice in the market, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered the National Food Agency (Bapanas) to release stock kept by the State Log

Antara, Jakarta – The National Food Agency (Bapanas) has expressed readiness to work with the Indonesian Ombudsman on public service governance to ensure the availability and stable pri

Defara Dhanya, Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Halal Product Assurance Agency (BPJPH) Head, M.

Yohanes Maharso, Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – Most food commodity prices have increased as of Saturday, December 9, 2023.

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – The Indonesian Traditional Market Traders Association (IKAPPI) says staple food prices have been going up long before they normally do as the year draws toward a

Defara Dhanya, Aisyah Amira Wakang, Antara, Jakarta – The National Strategic Food Prices Information Center from Bank Indonesia recorded that chili prices in Indonesia have skyrocketed.

Yohanes Maharso, Riani Sanusi Putri, Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – Arief Prasetyo Adi, head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas) blatantly revealed the reason behind the recent sugar price

Nusa Dua, Indonesia – Indonesia will continue its domestic market obligation (DMO) for palm oil into 2024 to maintain the price stability of cooking oil, Trade Ministry official Isy Kar

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – McDonald's Indonesia license holder, PT Rekso Nasional Food, spoke up following the news of McDonald's Israel giving meal aid to Israel, as well as the cal

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia is reeling from the spike in rice prices that hit a record high in October, with food stalls and households forced to serve smaller rice portions on

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – State-owned holding company ID Food plans to import 125,000 tonnes of sugar to calm the surge in the commodity's domestic price.

Amy Heppy, Jakarta – Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas) Arief Prasetyo Adi said the government adjusted the price of rice during the market operation or Stabilization of Food Su

BeritaSatu, Cikarang – US food and beverage giant PepsiCo has announced a substantial investment of $200 million to build a new snack factory in Indonesia.

Yohana Belinda, Jakarta – The craft of winemaking has come a long way in Indonesia over the past decade, from humble beginnings in East Java's hip-hop community via burgeoning artisanal

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Antara, Jakarta – The Fatwa Commission of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has emphasized that Nabidz wine is haram (forbidden) for Muslims because laboratory tests have found a high

Ruth Dea Juwita, Jakarta – The domestic food and beverage industry is considering raising the prices of a number of products this year to make up for the high price of refined sugar, an

Amelia Rahima Sari and Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The Indonesian Traditional Market Traders Association (Ikappi) reported that the price of chicken eggs remains high and even reaches

Sydney – Indonesia has paused live cattle imports from four Australian facilities after lumpy skin disease was detected in a small number of cattle some time after arrival, the Australi

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo instructed state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and local governments to hold more bazaars offering food commodities at cheaper p

Herman, Jakarta – A halal-certified restaurant Baso A Fung recently destroyed all bowls in its Bali branch after influencer Jovi Adhiguna dipped pork crackers in his meatball soup.

Antara, Jakarta – The National Food Agency (Bapanas), Jakarta regional-owned meat industry company Dharma Jaya, and the Jakarta provincial Food Security, Maritime Affairs, and Fisheries

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – Having seen sales plummet by more than 30 percent and profits contract by more than 60 percent in 2020, major alcoholic beverage companies in Indonesia are in goo

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Subsidiaries of some of the world's biggest palm oil companies have been found guilty by Indonesia's anticompetition watchdog of restricting sales of cooki

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – The National Food Agency (Bapanas) in a public discussion on Thursday revealed the country's heavy reliance on imported garlic, which the agency claimed re

Dewi Kurniawati, Jakarta – Indonesia's anti-monopoly agency (KPPU) ordered seven cooking oil companies on Friday to pay fines of up to over $2 million each for restricting sales amid sc

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – Deputy Trade Minister Jerry Sambuaga dismissed the issue of increasing egg prices.

Investor.id, Jakarta – The Indonesian Retailer Association, or Aprindo, mulls suing the government if the promised subsidies aimed at keeping cooking oil price low aren't paid.

Vincent Fabian Thomas, Jakarta – Crude palm oil (CPO) producers will be required to supply more of their output to the domestic market next month, if they want to maintain their export

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia has only achieved half of what it had initially targeted for the so-called domestic market obligation or DMO for cooking oil in April, according

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – The Indonesian poultry industry is poised to see constrained growth this year as firms' bottom lines are eroded by a prolonged oversupply of live birds and higher

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo rebutted issues of shortage in government-branded cooking oil Minyakita in traditional markets.

Raul Dancel, Singapore – Some ice cream after a meal of instant noodles is always welcome, but mashed up and served together?

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo claimed that prices of nearly all basic needs have dropped ahead of the 2023 Eid al-Fitr.

Herman, Jakarta – Meat imports have failed to drive down soaring beef prices amid the Ramadan season, according to the Indonesian Traditional Markets Trader Association or Ikappi.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council confirmed on Wednesday that it cannot grant the halal certificate for pork-flavored instant noodles even if they are entirely made from plants.

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The Indonesian Trade Ministry's acting director general of domestic trade, Kasan, said the oil palm domestic obligation market (DMO) realization had only r

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) chairperson M Afif Hasbullah revealed a number of findings of hoarding of bulk cooking oil in simple

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – The government has decided to increase the portion of domestic market obligation (DMO) of crude palm oil (CPO), the raw material of cooking oil, and slow

BTV, Tangerang – Affordable cooking oil brand Minyakita, initiated by the Trade Ministry last year to cope with nationwide shortage, has gone scarce in some public markets across the co

Lily McCure, Jakarta – Two cities starkly different in their appearance, Melbourne and Jakarta share a large commonality, coffee.

Ni Komang Erviani, Nusa Dua, Bali – Bali celebrated Arak Bali Day for the first time on Sunday with an event in Nusa Dua promoting the traditional liquor distilled from the sap or fruit

Riri Rahayu (Antara), Jakarta – The increase in soybean prices has affected tofu and tempeh producers.