Year-on-year, Indonesia's inflation eased slightly to 8.32 percent from 8.40 percent in September 2013. Year to date, inflation now stands at 7.66 percent after the first ten months of 2013.

Indonesia's Central Bank (Bank Indonesia) expects inflation to reach between 9.0 and 9.8 percent by the end of 2013, far above its initial target of 4.5 percent. Inflation accelerated after the government decided to increase prices of subsidized fuels in June 2013.

2013    Inflation
January      1.03%
February      0.75%
March      0.63%
April     -0.10%
May     -0.03%
June      1.03%
July      3.29%
August      1.12%
September     -0.35%
October      0.09%
Total      7.66%
    2008   2009   2010   2011   2012   2013
Inflation
(annual percent change)
   9.8    4.8    5.1    5.4    4.3    7.7¹

¹ Year to date (January-October 2013)
Source: Statistics Indonesia

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