JAKARTA - The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry encourages economic growth of 8 percent through increasing national productivity by strengthening collaboration between stakeholders, encouraging household consumption, and optimizing economic stimulus 8+4+5.
Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for National Development Planning (Bippenas-Kadin Indonesia) Bayu Priawan Djokosoetono emphasized the importance of the role of stakeholders to encourage economic growth based on increasing productivity.
"So far, economic growth has been mainly driven by increased capital input/investment and additional labor," said Bayu in a statement in Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Monday, November 10.
Mentioned based on data from the 2025 Databook Asian Productivity Organization (APO), the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) to Indonesia's economic growth is almost zero, while TFP's contribution to Vietnam's economic growth reaches 8 percent, especially since China reaches 26 percent.
"From now on, we must focus more on synergizing in increasing productivity so that we can achieve 8 percent growth as soon as possible", said Bayu.
In the III-quartal, he continued, the nominal output productivity of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per Indonesian worker is an average of IDR 13.78 million per month. The four economic sectors with the highest productivity of GDP per worker are the mining sector, with worker productivity seven times compared to the average.
Followed by the real estate sector and the information and communication sector with productivity about six times compared to the average. The fourth order is the electricity and gas supply sector with GDP/worker productivity about four times compared to the average.
"The four sectors have high productivity because they are technologically dense and capital-intensive, and require skilled, highly educated human resources to carry it out," he explained.
Bayu also appreciated the 8+4+5 stimulus package launched by the Government and is already running, especially starting October.
According to him, the economic stimulus is quite good, for example, the fresh graduate internship program which was greeted by 156,000 registrants, but Kadin also hopes that the government will complete it with a tourism stimulus package that can encourage increased travel and welcome the Christmas and New Year holidays (2025/2026).
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Standing Committee for Economic Planning of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ikhwan Primanda, emphasized that Indonesia must encourage investment that brings the right and effective technology to increase productivity in various economic sectors.
"While ensuring the transfer of technology to local players," said Primanda.
He said Indonesia's biggest economic contributor was the manufacturing sector with a contribution of 19.15 percent to GDP. In the third quarter of 2025, the manufacturing/processing industry managed to grow 5.54 percent (yoy).
Indonesian Manufacturing PMI has also shown expansion levels since August and reached 51.2 in September 2025. However, Primanda hopes that the government will continue to encourage the synergy of strengthening the national industry.
"The transformation of the National Industry must be continued by encouraging the emergence of the raw material industry, intermediate materials, and downstream industries that can absorb a lot of labor," said Primanda.
Furthermore, it is said that agriculture as the second largest sector with a contribution of 14.35 percent to Indonesia's GDP, only grew 4.93 percent in the 2025 Quarter-III. Even though the sector absorbed 28.15 percent of Indonesian workers.
"Currently, the agricultural sector has a productivity of around 0.5 of the national average product of GDP per worker," he said.
Primanda also appreciated the Housing KUR program worth IDR 130 trillion which is believed to be able to strengthen the real estate sector, encourage 140 related industries, and open up job opportunities for around 9 million workers.
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Chairman of the Standing Committee for Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Food Planning Frans Tambunan added that Indonesia must continue to encourage agricultural modernization through innovation and technology investment at an appropriate cost, as well as increase production through land optimization and land clearing of new agricultural and plantations.
"In addition, it is also necessary to encourage the fisheries sector to make Indonesia a world food barn," said Frans.
He emphasized this because the construction sector with a contribution of 9.82 percent to the economy only grew 4.21 percent, while the real estate sector only grew 3.95 percent.
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