BPS Records Construction Sector Absorbs 8.7 Million Workers As Of February 2025
JAKARTA - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) noted that construction is still a sector that contributes significantly to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In addition, the absorption of the sector to the workforce is also quite high.
Head of BPS Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti said, until February 2025, labor absorption from the construction sector had reached 8.7 million workers or about 5.97 percent of the total population working in Indonesia.
"This figure certainly shows that infrastructure development not only supports economic growth, but also creates jobs and improves people's welfare," Amalia said at the signing of a Joint Agreement with the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) at the Ministry of Public Works office, Jakarta, Tuesday, August 19.
The labor absorption was in a position after the agricultural sector, with 28.54 percent of the total working population, 19.26 percent trading, 13.45 percent processing industry and 7.87 percent accommodation and food and drink.
Meanwhile, for the contribution to GDP, said Amalia, the sector's contribution reached 9.40 percent in the second quarter of 2025.
"Share from the construction sector is 9.48 percent, the fourth largest after the industry, then agriculture and trade," he said.
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In the second quarter of 2025, the manufacturing sector recorded a contribution to GDP of 18.67 percent, agriculture of 13.83 percent and trade of 13.02 percent.
On this occasion, the Ministry of Public Works and BPS also signed a memorandum of understanding or MoU on the provision and exchange of spatial data, stock and quality of the construction sector. This is used to calculate the Incremental Capital Output Ratio (ICOR) in the construction and infrastructure sectors.
"This is of course important to assess the real impact of infrastructure investment. Not only on national economic growth, but also on increasing productivity in key sectors, such as agriculture, processing industry and logistics services," he said.