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 ...

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 ...

In Indonesian media it was reported that Sandiaga Uno, who is Indonesian Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, stated that the country managed to collect a total of USD $10.46 billion in foreign ...