Cement Prices Cement prices in Palu, Central Sulawesi, have increased to an unprecedented level. Rudi Zulkarnain, Head of Business and Trade support Department of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Industry and Trade (I don't know how to shorten this) of Central Sulawesi, said on Monday that the average cement price has increased by 5,000 Rupiahs per sack. Cement retailers such as Tonasa, previously sold a sack of cement for Rp60,000. Their price per sack has now increased to Rp65,000. Tiga Roda hiked up from Rp59,000 to 64,000. Meanwhile, Bossowa rose to Rp60,000 per sack. This increase in prices, according to the retailers, are a direct result of increased distributor selling prices following the increase in fuel prices on June 19th 2013.