ASEANEWS HEADLINE-BUSINESS ECONOMY | JAKARTA, Indonesia: 2025 GDP growth misses target
Indonesia is not worried and is focused on concluding negotiations with the US,” Coordinating Economy Ministry spokesman Haryo Limanseto, told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
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Black sky: Thick clouds cover residential areas and high-rise buildings on Jan. 23, 2026, in Jakarta. (Antara/Muhammad Adimaja)
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2025 ECONOMIC REVIEW AND 2026 PROSPECTS
Indonesia’s economy in 2025 remained resilient with growth around the 5% level, supported by domestic consumption, investment and policy support, despite global uncertainties. Our guest is Fithra Faisal Hastiadi, Expert Team, Government Communication Office. He will talk about the economic performance last year and outlook for this year.
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Economic growth improved slightly last year but failed to meet the government’s target set out in the state budget.
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E conomic growth improved slightly last year but failed to meet the government’s target set out in the state budget, new data shows, raising further doubts about reaching President Prabowo Subianto ’s goal of 8 percent gross domestic product growth.
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Indonesia’s economy expanded 5.11 percent last year, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced in a press conference on Thursday, accelerating from 5.03 percent recorded in 2024.
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Fourth-quarter growth came in at 5.39 percent year-on-year (yoy), which Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, who took the ministerial mantle in September, admitted “was lower than my estimate or my promise, […] but, honestly, it’s pretty good”.
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He told reporters on Thursday that “what’s important is that there’s a turnaround of the economy,” noting that the growth figure was the highest since the third quarter of 2022.
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The latest GDP report comes two days after the finance minister said economic growth would reach 6 percent this year, 6.5 percent in 2027, “close to 7” percent the following year and approach 8 percent in 2029.
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Click to read: https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/02/05/2025-gdp-growth-misses-target.html?utm_source=(direct)&utm_medium=home_headlines.
Deni Ghifari
The Jakarta Post-PREMIUM
Jakarta
Thu, February 5, 2026
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