Deflation itself was not a surprise as it is common for prices (particularly of food and to a lesser extent of transportation ...

A few weeks later, Indah Anggoro Putri, the Director General of Industrial Relations and Social Security at the Manpower Ministry, raised that number to nearly 26,500 layoffs (so far in 2025), with ...

However, there’s also a very different form of shadow play ongoing in Indonesia; one that is present on basically every street, in every town and city. It is one that defines the Indonesian economy by ...

On Thursday 05 June 2025, Indonesia Investments released the May 2025 edition of its monthly report. This report discusses a ...

One important thing to keep in mind: what is considered a commodity today can become a currency tomorrow. The rest is in the article below. Cryptocurrencies (like Bitcoin and Ethereum) present a ...

In April 2025 Indonesia experienced another month of steep inflation as the effects of the central government’s generous 50 percent electricity rate discount program in January-February 2025 was ...

The long Idul Fitri holiday (that ends on 7 April 2025) somewhat disrupts our access to Indonesia’s macroeconomic data as much of the private and public sector is closed during this holiday (hence do ...

The agricultural sector plays an important economic role for Indonesia as this sector generates jobs (thus incomes) for dozens of millions of Indonesians, delivers much-needed staple food crops (that ...

Indonesia began 2025 with a month of steep deflation. In January 2025, the headline deflation rate of Indonesia hit 0.76 percent month-on-month (m/m). It is a monthly decline we have not seen since ...

Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia confirmed in Indonesian media that, per 1 January 2025, the mandatory B40 biodiesel program was imposed across Indonesia. Earlier, ...

In last month’s report we saw that Indonesia’s official economic growth rate was (in line with expectations) quite strong at 5.11 percent year-on-year (y/y) in Q1-2024. Moreover, last month we also ...

Indonesia enjoyed another great USD $3.56 billion trade surplus in April 2024. But unfortunately the nation’s exports and imports both dropped on a month-on-month (m/m) basis. However, that was in ...