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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 February 2025.
On 5 February 2025, the Statistical Agency of Indonesia (Badan Pusat Statistik, BPS) announced that Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) was recorded at a growth rate of 5.03 percent year-on-year (y/y) in 2024. In another article in this month’s edition, we devote an analysis concerning Indonesia’s 2024 GDP growth.
On Wednesday 05 March 2025, Indonesia Investments released the February 2025 edition of its monthly report. The report discusses a range of national and international topics that impacted on Indonesia in the month of February 2025.
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 the 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crisis.
