Import Value Until May 2025 Reached 96.60 Billion US Dollars
JAKARTA - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) noted that import performance from January to May 2025 reached 96.60 billion US dollars, an increase of 5.45 percent cumulatively to cumulatively (ctc) or when compared to the same period last year of 91.61 billion US dollars.
Deputy for Distribution and Services Statistics at the Central Statistics Agency of BPS Pudji Ismartini revealed that the performance of this import was most driven by non-oil and gas imports (oil and gas) whose value reached 82.96 billion US dollars, or an increase of 7.92 percent (ctc) or when compared to the same period last year of 76.87 billion US dollars.
Meanwhile, the value of oil and gas imports reached 13.64 billion US dollars, or a decrease of 7.44 percent (ctc) when compared to the same period in 2024 of 14.74 billion US dollars.
"If you look at its use, cumulatively, an increase in the value of imports occurs in auxiliary raw materials and capital goods," he said at a press conference, Tuesday, July 1.
In more detail, he conveyed that cumulatively the import value of auxiliary raw materials reached 69.40 billion US dollars, or an increase of 3.65 percent (ctc) when compared to the same period in 2024 of 66.96 billion US dollars.
Then, the import value of capital goods reached 18.82 billion US dollars, or an increase of 17.67 percent (ctc) when compared to the same period in 2024 of 15.99 billion US dollars.
Meanwhile, imports of consumer goods recorded contraction or only reached 8.38 billion US dollars, or a decrease of 3.21 percent (ctc) when compared to the same period in the previous year of 8.66 billion US dollars.
Then, based on import purposes, the value of non-oil and gas imports to China from January to May 2025 was 33.12 billion US dollars or an increase compared to the same period in the previous year of 27.37 billion US dollars.
Furthermore, the value of non-oil and gas imports to Japan from January to May 2025 was 6.31 billion US dollars, an increase compared to the same period in 2024 of 5.35 billion US dollars.
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In addition, the value of non-oil and gas imports to Singapore from January to May 2025 was recorded at 3.89 billion US dollars, an increase compared to the same period in the previous year of 3.58 billion US dollars.
Next, the value of non-oil and gas imports to ASEAN from January to May 2025 was recorded at 9.47 billion US dollars, down when compared to the same period in 2024 of 9.88 billion US dollars.
Then, the value of non-oil and gas imports to the European Union from January to May 2025 was recorded at 4.53 billion US dollars or decreased when compared to the same period in the previous year of 4.94 billion US dollars.
Meanwhile, the value of non-oil and gas imports to others from January to May 2025 was recorded at US$25.64 billion, down when compared to the same period in 2024 of US$25.75 billion.