Indonesia Investments' News Columns section contains articles with a detailed analysis regarding topics that have high news value in Indonesia and can be regarded as topics that are capable of influencing Indonesia's investment climate. Most columns published in this section cover subjects related to politics, economics and social matters. By following these publications on a regular basis, one will be apprised of what is happening in Indonesia and - just as important - understand why it is happening.
Below, we reprint the introduction to the December 2025 report. This report zooms in on a variety of topics that were relevant to Indonesia in the month of December 2025. When selecting subjects to examine, we always focus on those that (potentially) influence the investment environment of Indonesia.
In line with expectations, the economic growth rate of Indonesia was recorded at the level of 5.04 percent year-on-year (y/y) in the third quarter of 2025. This is a good result as it slightly exceeded analyst expectations (in our case, we had projected a 5 percent y/y growth rate), and was also a faster growth pace than the one recorded by Indonesia in the same quarter one year earlier (4.95 percent y/y).
Tensions in Indonesian society peaked in late August and early September 2025 as big demonstrations, fundamentally driven by deep, long-standing public frustration over economic hardship and perceived political corruption, took the streets. It was a scary period, with reportedly ten fatalities.
A month ago, we reported on the large demonstrations that occupied the streets of various Indonesian cities in late August 2025 and early September 2025, touching on structural inequality and corruption in Indonesian society that cause persistent frustrations to simmer beneath the surface.
