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 ...

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 ...

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 started 2025 with two straights months of deflation. And, again, this was not a real surprise as the 50 percent electricity rate discount for households up to 2,200 VA still applied in ...

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 December 2024, Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources released a statement in which it said that renewable energy accounts for 13.93 percent of the national energy mix. Meanwhile, the ...

At the beginning of July 2024, Indonesia’s Statistical Agency (Badan Pusat Statistik, BPS) released the latest poverty statistics of Indonesia. We consider it worthwhile to take a close look at the ...