JAKARTA - The government closed 2025 with a relatively solid national economic condition even though it was faced with various global pressures such as geopolitical dynamics, financial market fluctuations, and the slowdown in the world economy did not shake Indonesia's economic stability.
The Secretary of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Susiwijono Moegiarso, conveyed that national economic resilience is the result of synergy across ministries and agencies in maintaining stability while encouraging sustainable economic transformation.
He added that throughout 2025, key economic indicators showed positive performance such as economic growth of 5.04 percent on an annual basis in the third quarter of 2025, inflation was successfully maintained at 2.72 percent as of November 2025.
"The trade balance also recorded a surplus of US$ 35.88 billion throughout January-October 2025, continuing the trend of a surplus for 66 consecutive months. A number of other indicators, such as the Manufacturing PMI, Consumer Confidence Index, and credit growth, are in the expansionary zone," he said in a statement quoted Wednesday, December 31.
Susiwijono said that at the global level, Indonesia's role is increasingly taken into account through active involvement in various strategic forums, including the OECD, BRICS, G20, ASEAN, APEC, and RCEP.
In addition, he added that the government continues to expand the network of trade cooperation through a number of agreements, such as IEU-CEPA, ICA-CEPA, ACFTA 3.0, to the signing of the Indonesia-EAEU Free Trade Agreement on December 21, 2025.
"Negotiations on reciprocal tariffs with the United States have also reached a major substantive agreement and are targeted to be completed by early 2026," he said.
In the energy transition sector, the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) funding commitment for Indonesia increased from 20 billion US dollars in 2022 to 21.4 billion US dollars in 2025.
According to him, this increase reflects the high confidence of international partners in the national energy transition program.
He added that the government also continues to maintain people's purchasing power through various stimuli, such as transportation discounts, national shopping programs including Harbolnas and Indonesia Great Sale, as well as the distribution of BLTS Kesra to nearly 30 million beneficiary families.
According to him, this policy plays an important role in supporting household consumption towards the end of the year.
"In terms of governance, the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy has again received the title of Informative Public Agency from the Central Information Commission throughout 2025. The quality of communication and publication of national economic policies is assessed to continue to improve," he explained.
Susiwijono emphasized that the end of the year is a moment of evaluation and strengthening performance.
He encouraged all levels to continue to increase capacity, as well as prioritize a solutive and collaborative mindset to maintain national economic resilience in the future.
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