Premium Safawi Dates 1kg

Premium Safawi Dates 1kg — The Family Size and Our Price Anchor

The 1kg Safawi pack is the most re-ordered item in our catalog. The logic is simple: Safawi is the variety with the most loyal buyers — once your household gets used to its dark-caramel sweetness and chewy bite, 500g disappears too quickly. One kilogram holds roughly 90–115 Premium-grade dates: a month of snacking for a small family, or two full weeks of iftar.

What Is a Fair Price for 1kg of Safawi Dates?

This is the question we receive most often on WhatsApp — and honestly, the market makes it hard to answer. Marketplace listings for this variety scatter from around Rp20,000 (250g promos) to Rp300,000 for premium packs with no grade explanation at all; even the most-quoted national date price lists skip Safawi entirely. As a benchmark, our Premium-grade 1kg Safawi price sits at Rp150,000–175,000, moving with harvest batches and import rates, always displayed openly with a last-updated date. No login-gated prices, no "contact us for pricing".

What Makes It "Premium"? Our Working Definition

• Size sorting: only large fruit with uniform length and oval shape passes.
• Skin condition: evenly jet-black, finely wrinkled, free of tears or excessive sugar crystallization.
• Moisture: properly semi-dry — chewy on the bite, never hard, never wet or sticky.
• Batch freshness: fast-rotating stock from our Cakung warehouse with a clearly printed best-before date.

Per-Kilogram Price Comparison Across Packs

The pattern is clear: 1kg is where the per-kilogram price becomes efficient without stepping up to carton formats. That is why repeat buyers almost always graduate to this size after their first trial pack.

The Same Date Sold at the Madinah Central Market

Safawi and Ajwa lead sales at the Madinah Central Date Market — the market where Indonesian pilgrims shop for souvenirs. Of the roughly 70 varieties grown in the province, Safawi is among the handful everyone knows, with a recorded 5,577 tonnes produced in 2023. We import it directly — Saudi Arabia is Indonesia's second-largest date supplier after Egypt — and hold it at our Cakung, East Jakarta warehouse with rapid stock rotation. If you know this fruit as Kalmi dates, this is the exact same variety.

When Is the Best Time to Buy?

The short answer: before Ramadan arrives. Indonesian date demand spikes sharply every fasting season — Tanah Abang traders have recorded turnover up around 50%, a Denpasar date shop reported a 200% surge, and national date imports once jumped 51% in a single month ahead of the fast. Prices creep upward and the best grades thin out precisely when everyone wants them. Our repeat buyers typically secure one or two 1kg packs several weeks before Ramadan; as a semi-dry date, Safawi stays in prime condition until the fast is over.

Delivery and Ordering

The 1kg pack ships same-day to East, South, West, North, and Central Jakarta for orders before noon, and same-day or next-day to Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi, and Bogor. Message WhatsApp +62 823-4350-8579 with "Safawi Premium 1kg" — we reply with the current price, photos of the running batch on request, and the shipping total before you pay.