Indonesians paying the price of cooking oil crisis


About three weeks after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, housewife Liesye Setiana was forced to close her banana chip business as cooking oil supplies dried up across the country.

Millions of consumers and small business owners in the world’s fourth most populous nation have been rattled for months by skyrocketing cooking oil prices.

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