16 September 2025 (closed)
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The Business Columns section of Indonesia Investments provides in-depth columns that exhibit an analysis regarding subjects that are both important for understanding the Indonesian business climate and have high news value in the current state of Indonesia's economy. As a whole these columns should provide the reader a thorough and detailed picture of multiple Indonesian business sectors and be a source of ideas or inspiration to invest - or not to invest - in specific sectors of the Indonesian economy.
Across Indonesia, demand for used cars remains strong (exceeding sales of new cars by a wide margin), and this offers a lucrative market for players in the country's second-hand car industry. Meanwhile, it also points at a shifting consumer pattern that exposes a weakness in the Indonesian economy.
In another article in this report we discuss the remarkable discrepancy between the strong (official) gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 5.12 percent year-on-year (y/y) in Q2-2025 and Indonesia’s somewhat lackluster macroeconomic data in that same quarter. This discrepancy not only surprised many, but it also made many a bit suspicious about the accuracy of the Q2-2025 GDP data that were released by the Statistical Agency of Indonesia (Badan Pusat Statistik, BPS).
Since his return into the White House, US President Donald Trump has made a series of decisions and expressed a number of threats that have the potential for disrupting Indonesia’s trade performance, and thus undermining Indonesia’s economic growth.
In recent months, we have been reading quite some reports (in Indonesian media) about layoffs occurring in various domestic industries, which is a development that seems to be in line with the slowing economic growth trajectory of Indonesia.
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