Indonesian consumers cut spending as inflation bites household budgets

A motorist transports vegetables purchased at a wholesale market in Jakarta on April 13, 2022. - AFP

JAKARTA, Aug 27 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Tuti, a housewife and small-scale business owner in Bandung, West Java, is making drastic changes to her family’s budget to cope with rapidly rising inflation.

The soaring prices of flour, vegetables, eggs and other foodstuffs as well as fuel was difficult to bear, she said.