Slightly Different, Import Increase Until April 2025 Reaches 6.27 Percent

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JAKARTA - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) noted that import performance from January to April 2025 reached 76.29 billion US dollars, an increase of 6.27 percent cumulative to cumulative (ctc) or when compared to the same period last year of 71.79 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 US$65.29 billion, or an increase of 9.18 percent (ctc) or when compared to the same period last year of 59.80 billion US dollars.

Meanwhile, the value of oil and gas imports reached 11 billion US dollars, or a decrease of 8.27 percent (ctc) when compared to the same period in 2024 of 11.99 billion US dollars.

"Then if you look at its use, cumulatively, the increase in imports occurs in auxiliary raw materials and capital goods," he said at a press conference, Monday, June 2.

In more detail, he conveyed that cumulatively the import value of auxiliary raw materials reached 55.35 billion US dollars, or an increase of 5.32 percent (ctc) when compared to the same period in 2024 of 52.56 billion US dollars and an increase of 3.89 percent.

Then, the import value of capital goods reached 14.38 billion US dollars, or an increase of 16.80 percent (ctc) compared to the same period in 2024 of 12.31 billion US dollars.

Meanwhile, imports of consumer goods recorded a contraction or only reached 6.56 billion US dollars, or a decrease of 5.26 percent (ctc) when compared to the same period in the previous year of 6.92 billion US dollars.

Then, based on import purposes, the value of non-oil and gas imports to China from January to May 2025 or increased compared to the same period in the previous year of 21.05 billion US dollars.

Furthermore, the value of non-oil and gas imports to Japan from January to May 2025 was 5.04 billion US dollars, an increase compared to the same period in 2024 of 4.31 billion US dollars.

In addition, the value of non-oil and gas imports to Thailand from January to May 2025 was recorded at 3.13 billion US dollars or decreased when compared to the same period in the previous year of 3.28 billion US dollars.

Next, the value of non-oil and gas imports to ASEAN from January to May 2025 was recorded at 7.45 billion US dollars, an increase compared to the same period in 2024 of 7.32 billion US dollars.

Then, the value of non-oil and gas imports to the European Union from January to May 2025 was recorded at US$3.61 billion, down when compared to the same period in the previous year of US$3.80 billion.

Meanwhile, the value of non-oil and gas imports to others from January to May 2025 was recorded at 20.28 billion US dollars, an increase compared to the same period in 2024 of 20.05 billion US dollars.