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Poverty has existed for many years, and will always exist in a large number of countries, so poverty alleviation targets are a challenge for most countries. The main objective of this research is to analyze the impact of strategic food price increases on poverty with a systematic measure. The study uses SUSENAS (Indonesian National Socioeconomic Survey) raw data. The total data used is 287,830 households. consisting of 166,019 rural households and 121,811 urban households. The impact of price changes on poverty can be seen by using The Head Count Ratio, The Poverty Gap Ratio, The Sen Index, and The Foster-Greer and Thorbecke Index. The analysis showed that the poverty gap was 4.84% for Indonesian households, 4.149% for rural households, and 5,530% for urban households. This ratio shows that the average household food expenditure is 4.84% lower than the corresponding poverty line compared to household food expenditure in Indonesia as a whole. Sen index values vary from 4,913 for rural households, 5,838 for Indonesian households to 6,762 for urban households. This shows that the highest inequality is in urban households.