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In May 2025 Indonesia experienced steeper deflation that we had expected. Based on the latest data from Indonesia’s Statistical Office (Badan Pusat Statistik, BPS), the deflation rate was recorded at -0.37 percent month-on-month (m/m).
On Thursday 05 June 2025, Indonesia Investments released the May 2025 edition of its monthly report. This report discusses a selection of economic, social and political topics that were relevant in Indonesia in the month of May 2025.
In the present, it has become particularly interesting to take a look at trade flows as the US import tariffs (announced by President Donald Trump on 2 April 2025) could cause the restructuring, or reshaping, of international trade.
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 absorbed in the statistics.
