The market is a mechanism of exchange of goods and services that are natural and have been going on since the earliest human civilization. Islam puts the market in a very important position, in the market economy has become more attention than the classical scholars such as Abu Yusuf, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Taimiyah. In the Indonesian economy today, the necessities of life for Indonesians are high but many Indonesians are still low income so there is a gap, if it is allowed to happen then it will cause poverty will continue to happen and getting worse. This study aims to examine the relevance of Ibn Khaldun's market theory theory of price with poverty in Indonesia, from the problem whether one of the causes of poverty factor in Indonesia is about price, if seen from the data collected the price of staple goods in rural more high from urban areas. This research is qualitative, the method used in data collection is documentation of primary data and secondary data and analysis of this research is deductive-inductive method is to discuss from general thing then made to special thing so that can be obtained by conclusion from that research. The results of the research on the market mechanism of Ibnu khaldun viewed in terms of price in 2016 there is a correlation between poverty with the price level, where the price of basic staple food in rural areas is higher than urban, and the level of rural poverty is higher and it is in accordance with the price theory of Ibn Khaldun.