JAKARTA - The Ministry of Industry (Kemenperin) recorded that the industrial confidence index (IKI) in February 2026 reached 54.02.
This figure is down 0.10 points compared to IKI in January 2026 which was recorded at 54.12.
Ministry of Industry spokesman Febri Hendri Antoni Arif said that although the IKI value decreased, the figure was still expanding. The score also increased by 0.87 points compared to the achievement of the February 2025 period which was only 53.15.
"In February, the IKI value fell slightly to 54.2. So, the IKI in February slowed down by 0.10 points compared to the IKI of 54.12 in January," said the spokesperson for the Ministry of Industry, Febri Hendri Antoni Arif in the February 2026 IKI Release in Jakarta, Thursday, February 26.
Febri added that in February, there were 19 subsectors that experienced expansion. The contribution of these 19 subsectors to gross domestic product (GDP) was 92.9 percent.
Meanwhile, the sub-sectors of industry that experienced contraction were the wood, wood and cork goods (excluding furniture) and woven goods and bamboo, rattan and similar goods industries.
The mining industry, metal opening, computer industry, electronic and optical goods, and machine and equipment repair and installation are also still contracting.
"Why is the printing and reproduction subsector the highest? One of the reasons is because it supports the production of the food and beverage industry," he said.
"We know that the demand for the food and beverage industry has jumped ahead of the national religious holidays and they usually produce a month or two before the holidays," he continued.
On the other hand, the value of the new variable order IKI increased by 0.07 points or reached 55.34.
Meanwhile, the variable of product inventory increased by 0.11 points or reached 50.25.
In contrast, the value of the variable production IKI slowed down by 0.51 points or reached 54.35.
For IKI exports and domestic still show an expansionary trend in February 2025.
IKI exports in February 2026 were recorded at the level of 54.61 or slowed slightly by 0.1 points from January 2026 which reached the level of 54.62.
Meanwhile, domestic IKI is also still in the expansion phase at the level of 53.12.
This figure decreased by 0.13 points compared to January 2026 which was at the level of 53.25.
In addition, the condition of business activities in general in February 2026 tends to decline compared to the previous month, namely 77.6 percent of respondents said that their business activities were improving and stable.
Optimistic business actors about their business conditions in the next six months still show a trend of increasing optimism in the last six months, namely 73.5 percent.
The figure is up 1 percent compared to the previous month's percentage.
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