{"id":1393947,"date":"2022-03-22T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393947"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:17:21","slug":"report-ukraine-war-prompts-wheat-noodle-shortage-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-ukraine-war-prompts-wheat-noodle-shortage-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ukraine War Prompts Wheat Noodle Shortage in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-ukraine-war-prompts-wheat-noodle-shortage-in-indonesia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393947&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, one of Indonesia\u2019s biggest wheat suppliers, has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/21\/as-ukraine-war-sends-wheat-pas-indonesians-asking-wheres-indomie\">caused<\/a> a shortage of Indomie, a brand of wheat-based instant noodles popular in the Southeast Asian country, Al Jazeera reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been coming up to us and asking why there isn\u2019t any Indomie left,\u201d a grocery store staffer in Medan, Indonesia, named Muhammad Nasir told Al Jazeera for a report published on March 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe still have stocks of some other brands, but Indomie is by far the most popular and we have not had any new deliveries in recent weeks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nasir said supermarkets throughout Medan city have received fewer shipments of Indomie than usual over the past week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19899506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/wi\/afp\/15\/wheat-corn-commodities-produced-massive-scale-by-russia-ukraine-susceptible-wild-price-flu.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Wheat farming (AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Evidence of a wheat noodle shortage in Indonesia remains anecdotal for now, Al Jazeera noted Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20307359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-105207284.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20307359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-105207284.png\" alt=\"A vendor prepares instant noodles produced by the &#039;Indofood&#039; food company at a stall in Jakarta on October 12, 2010. Indonesia&#039;s biggest instant noodles producer held talks with Taiwanese authorities in an effort to lift a ban on its &#039;Indomie&#039; brand which contains preservative exceeding the amount allowed in the island nation, Indofood Sukses Makmur director Fransiscus Welirang said. AFP PHOTO \/ Bay ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A vendor prepares instant noodles produced by the \u2018Indofood\u2019 food company at a stall in Jakarta. (BAY ISMOYO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Indonesia <a href=\"https:\/\/jakartaglobe.id\/business\/russiaukraine-conflict-may-affect-indonesias-wheat-supply\">relies<\/a> heavily upon Ukraine for most of its wheat supply, suggesting any continued conflict in the country (which has been at war with Russia since <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1409329\">February 24<\/a>) could further disrupt wheat-related shipments to Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine exported nearly 3 million tonnes of wheat and meslin \u2013 a cereal comprising a mixture of wheat and rye \u2013 to Indonesia in 2020, making it the top supplier of the grain to the country,\u201d Al Jazeera reported on March 21 citing data from Indonesia\u2019s National Statistics Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The combined wheat industries of Russia and Ukraine account for over <a href=\"https:\/\/multimedia.europarl.europa.eu\/fr\/webstreaming\/agri-committee-meeting_20220228-1545-COMMITTEE-AGRI\">30 percent<\/a> of global wheat trade, according to the European Union\u2019s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Russia was the top wheat exporter in the world in 2020 while Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/26928\/largest-wheat-exporters\/\">ranked<\/a> fifth for wheat exports during the same year. Russia was additionally the\u00a0third-largest producer of wheat globally in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s latest war with neighboring Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/02\/experts-mideast-nations-dependent-ukraine-russia-wheat-may-face-crisis\/\">threatens<\/a> to disrupt wheat shipments to several nations that rely on Moscow and Kyiv for imported stocks of the cereal. In addition to Indonesia, these countries include Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, Yemen, Lebanon, and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEgypt relies on Russia and Ukraine for 85 percent of its wheat imports,\u201d Monica Marks, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at New York University Abu Dhabi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/1\/mena-region-faces-crisis-as-worlds-key-wheat-producers-at-war\">told<\/a> Al Jazeera on March 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough Turkey domestically produces about half of the wheat it consumes, it has become increasingly reliant on imports, 85 percent of which come from Russia and Ukraine,\u201d the Qatari news outlet observed.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentmonitor.ai\/special-focus\/ukraine-crisis\/countries-exposed-ukrainian-food-exports\">imported<\/a> $3.02 billion worth of wheat in 2019. Of this amount, $1.44 billion worth originated in Russia. Ukraine imported $773.4 million worth of wheat to Egypt during the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, one of Indonesia\u2019s biggest wheat suppliers, has\u00a0caused a shortage of Indomie, a brand of wheat-based instant noodles popular in the Southeast Asian country,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}