Jakarta, March 23 -- Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman ensured that food availability is safe and the prices are affordable until 2025 Eid al-Fitr, predicted to take place on March 31, 2025.

"The government is committed to maintaining food price stability and ensuring the availability is safe until Eid al-Fitr," he said at the Cheap Food Bazaar at the University of Indonesia (UI), Depok, West Java, on Saturday, according to a statement.

According to him, the national food stocks are safe, with rice stocks reaching 2.2 million tons. This amount is the highest in the last eight years.

Apart from that, the prices of food commodities that previously increased, such as chilis, have started to return to a stable state. Thus, the commu...