JAKARTA - Minister of Industry (Menperin) Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita conveyed the performance of the non-oil and gas processing industry or IPNM throughout 2025.
According to Agus, the performance of the manufacturing industry this year tends to be good amid challenges from both domestic and foreign countries.
Economic pressure is not only experienced by Indonesia, but other countries in the world.
However, Indonesia managed to survive by keeping its economic and manufacturing growth above 5 percent.
"However, with 2025, which we consider to be so heavy, we can see the data records, for Indonesia's economic performance, the performance of its manufacturing is quite good. Not many countries have economic growth above 5 percent, while we are above 5 percent," said Agus in a press conference. Performance of the Manufacturing Industry in 2025 and Outlook for the Manufacturing Industry in 2026 at his office, Wednesday, December 31.
It is known that the growth of IPNM in the third quarter of 2025 was 5.17 percent, higher than the economic growth of 5.01 percent. The contribution of IPNM to the National GDP was recorded at 17.27 percent.
The contribution of IPNM investment to the total national investment was recorded at 38.49 percent with a value of Rp552 trillion. Then, the contribution of IPNM labor was 13.83 percent or 20.26 million people.
The export of IPNM is also projected to continue to grow to reach US$ 232.61 billion by the end of 2025.
Meanwhile, next year IPNM growth is targeted to increase by 5.51 percent, with a target ratio of IPNM's contribution to the national GDP reaching 18.56 percent.
The contribution of exports of IPNM products is also targeted at 74.85 percent of total exports, while the percentage of IPNM workers to total workers is targeted at 14.68 percent.
In terms of quality, the productivity of IPNM labor is targeted to reach IDR 126.20 million per person per year.
The investment value of the IPNM sector is targeted at IDR 852.90 trillion, with the target of the share of the value added of the processing industry outside Java reaching 33.25 percent.
The government also targets a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in priority industrial sectors of 6.79 million tons of CO2 equivalent by 2026.
On that occasion, Agus also touched on the achievement of Manufacturing Value Added (MVA) released by the World Bank.
Indonesia's MVA value reached 265.07 billion US dollars. This figure places Indonesia in the 13th position in the world, surpassing the global average MVA of only 78.73 billion US dollars.
In the Southeast Asian region, Indonesia is leading far ahead of Thailand which is in second place with a value of 128.04 billion US dollars. Indonesia also outperforms Vietnam with a figure of 116.38 billion US dollars in third place, and Malaysia in fourth place with an MVA value of 94.93 billion US dollars.
"So, all this time, observers who say Vietnam bla bla bla. So if we look at this data, it is easy to describe the size of our economy, the size of our manufacturing, including the creation of our MVA is much larger," he explained.
Even so, Indonesia's MVA value is still below China, Japan, India and South Korea for the Asian level.
Agus is also optimistic that in the next few years Indonesia will be able to catch up with the MVA of these countries.
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