19 October 2025 (closed)
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The central bank of Indonesia (Bank Indonesia) surprised markets by cutting its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.75 percent at the September 2025 monetary policy meeting. It was the sixth rate cut in a monetary easing cycle that started in September 2024.
On Monday, 8 September 2025, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto established a new ministry: the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah. Mochamad Irfan Yusuf (a grandson of Nahdlatul Ulama founder KH. Hasyim Asy'ari) was appointed as its minister. It is interesting to take a closer look at the purpose of (and reason behind) this new ministry.
After the drastic cabinet reshuffle on Monday 8 September 2025 - when Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto replaced five ministers and created one new ministry - it is interesting to take a look at how markets are responding to these developments after a night's rest.
Indonesia is facing chaotic times, with a series of large anti-government protests having occurred in late August 2025 (leading to at least 10 deaths and extensive damage to public assets). And more problems may loom after Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto decided to go for a cabinet reshuffle on 8 September 2025.
On Wednesday 20 August 2025, Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (in Indonesian: Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi, or KPK) detained 14 people and seized 22 luxury vehicles (involving 15 cars and seven motorcycles) as well as a significant amount of cash after a sting operation was conducted.
On 29 August 2025, the benchmark stock index of Indonesia was in deep red territory (after having touched an all-time record high position a day earlier), while the rupiah lost quite some value against the US dollar. Certainly, profit-taking played a key role. However, portfolio investors were particularly interested in profit-taking due to rising political and social chaos across Indonesia.
On Monday 6 January 2025, it was announced by Brazil - which currently holds Chairmanship - that Indonesia has officially become a full member of the BRICS bloc, an intergovernmental organization that is considered an alternative to the G7 bloc.
On Tuesday 05 November 2024 Indonesia Investments released the October 2024 edition of its monthly report, titled: "Eight President of Indonesia Enters Office – the Transition in Focus". It presents analyses of political, economic and social matters that were relevant in Indonesian society in October 2024.
On Sunday 20 October 2024, Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated as Indonesia’s eight president for the 2024-2029 period at the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)/House of Representatives (DPR) building in Jakarta.
On Friday 6 September 2024 Indonesia Investments released the August 2024 edition of its monthly report. This report discusses various economic, political and social topics that were relevant (to Indonesia) in the month of August 2024.
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There is quite some controversial material to discuss after the Constitutional Court of Indonesia (Mahkamah Konstitusi, or MK) paved the way for incumbent President Joko Widodo’s eldest son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka (henceforth Gibran), to team up with Gerindra Chairman Prabowo Subianto in the presidential race.
On 17 May 2023 the Attorney General’s Office of Indonesia officially named Johnny G. Plate, Minister of Communication and Information, a suspect in a corruption case that involves the construction of base transceivers stations across the Archipelago. Plate was also immediately arrested in Jakarta.
We plan to give an update on Indonesia’s 2024 legislative and presidential elections each quarter because these elections are quite important for the future of Indonesia. As is widely known, incumbent President Joko Widodo cannot join this 2024 race because of the two-term limit, and so – after one decade in office – Indonesia will have a new president in 2024.
It is November, again! This means that Indonesia’s provincial governments need to determine the provincial minimum wages for next year (these new minimum wages will kick in per 1 January 2023).
While the 2024 legislative and presidential elections are still far away, we do expect Indonesian media to increasingly cover this topic in 2022, particularly if the COVID-19 pandemic eases, before this topic will really dominate national media in 2023.
Another year has passed, and therefore we would like to wish all of our subscribers a happy, healthy, and successful 2021! The transition to a brand new year is also typically a great occasion to look back at the year that has passed and look forward to the one that has arrived (and some may even have made a couple of New Year’s resolutions in an attempt to achieve a certain goal or change a bad habit).
In recent times, almost each year can be called a ‘political year’ for Indonesia as a big number of elections – especially at the regional level – need to be organized in this vast archipelago. Considering there are 34 provinces in Indonesia, containing 514 regents (kabupaten) and cities (kota), we see elections almost every year.
In September 2020 concern arose over whether the House of Representatives (DPR) is trying to undermine the country’s central bank (Bank Indonesia)’s independence (from the government). The DPR’s legislation body came with a bill (a draft revision of the Bank Indonesia Law) that contains a number of controversial articles, making analysts concerned about the quality of future monetary policymaking in Indonesia.
It is becoming clearer by the day that economic growth in Indonesia, in 2020, will be derailed enormously. Analysts and authoritative institutions (both international and domestic ones) have, again, cut their forecasts for Indonesia’s economic growth in Q2-2020 (decisions that obviously also have consequences for Indonesia’s full-year 2020 economic growth outlooks).
What marked the year 2019 for Indonesia was national politics. Although in these present times each year feels like a ‘political year’ for Indonesia – as the country’s local elections are spread out across years (and in 2020 it will be the turn of voters in various parts of the Archipelago to elect nine governors, 224 regents and 37 mayors) – the year 2019 was in fact a particularly ‘huge political year’ for Indonesia because of the (general) presidential and legislative elections that were held on 17 April 2019.
