JAKARTA The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) revealed that economic growth in the first quarter of 2025 reached 4.87 percent year on year (yoy) or slowed down when compared to the first quarter of 2024 which reached 5.11 percent.
Meanwhile, economic growth in the first quarter of 2025 slowed down 0.98 compared to the fourth quarter of 2024 which reached 5.02 percent (yoy).
Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, revealed that Indonesia's economy based on gross domestic product or Indonesia's GDP in the first quarter of 2025 at a current price of IDR 5,665.9 trillion and at a constant price of IDR 3,264.5 trillion.
In addition, he said that based on the five highest business fields and being the driving force for economic growth in the first quarter of 2025, namely the manufacturing, trade, agriculture, and construction industries showed positive growth. Meanwhile, mining experienced negative growth.
Amalia said the agricultural sector grew by 10.52 percent supported by the main harvest and increased production of rice and corn crops, thus contributing it to the total GDP by 12.66 percent.
Then, the processing industry grew by 4.55 percent so that it contributed to the total GDP by 19.25 percent, then transportation and warehousing grew 9.01 percent which contributed to GDP by 6.08 percent.
"Then there are also other services that are relatively high because they are supported by the increasing number of domestic tourist trips and foreign tourist visits during the first quarter of 2025," he explained at a press conference, Monday, May 5.
On the other hand, mining business fields contracted by 1.23 percent due to coal and lignite mining which contracted by 0.91 percent.
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"In line with the decline in demand in the international market and also metal ore mining, it contracted 11.83 percent due to the large maintenance planned for copper and gold mines in Central Papua," he said.
Amalia said that from the source of growth in the first quarter of 2025, agricultural business fields became the largest source of growth, which was 1.11 percent.
In addition, he added that this economic growth was also supported by business fields that contributed to economic growth, namely the processing industry which provided a source of growth of 0.93 percent.
Then, trade with a source of growth of 0.66 percent and information and communication provided a source of growth of 0.53 percent.
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