Initially, this deficit was projected at 2.53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). However, after the first six months of 2025 have passed, the latest projection (made by Indonesia’s Finance ...

As usual, we are going to take a close look at the latest available macroeconomic data of Indonesia to assess the current ...

The two key stories in this June 2025 report are energy and poverty. The reason why we delve into these topics is actually a matter of coincidence. At the very end of May 2025, Indonesia’s fully state ...

The other involves the revised poverty threshold of the World Bank. This revision causes Indonesia's poverty rate to climb to ...

In another article in this May 2025 edition, we discussed Indonesia’s Q1-2025 gross domestic product (GDP) data in detail. So, the focus of the article you’re reading right now will be on the latest ...

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 ...

Markets in Indonesia were closed for the national Idul Fitri holiday (the festivities that mark the end of the Ramadan month) between 28 March and 7 April 2025, meaning they haven't digested the ...

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, ...

Ever since the second half of 2023 car sales in Indonesia have been quite disappointing. While in recent years Indonesia had become used to seeing more than one million cars being sold across the ...