JAKARTA - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded an inflation of 0.68 percent (month to month/mtm) or an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 109.75 in January 2026 to 110.50 in February 2026.
BPS Distribution and Services Statistics Deputy Ateng Hartono said that while in February 2025 there was deflation of 0.48 percent, while on a calendar year (year to date/ytd), inflation was recorded at 0.53 percent.
He added that the largest monthly contributor to inflation was food, beverages, and tobacco with an inflation of 1.54 percent and contributed 0.45 percent to inflation.
"The dominant commodities driving inflation in this group are broiler chicken with an inflation contribution of 0.09 percent, sweet peas with an inflation contribution of 0.08 percent, fresh fish with an inflation contribution of 0.05 percent, red chili with an inflation contribution of 0.04 percent, then tomatoes, rice and broiler eggs with an inflation contribution of 0.02 percent," he said.
In addition, there are commodities that still contribute to deflation in February 2026, namely gasoline with a deflation contribution of 0.05 percent.
Based on components, the inflation in February 2026 was mainly driven by volatile components with an inflation contribution of 0.41 percent.
The dominant commodities that contributed to inflation were broiler chicken, sweet peas, and red chili.
Furthermore, the core component contributed 0.27 percent to inflation and the dominant commodities contributing to this group were gold jewelry, cooking oil, cars and rice with lauk.
Meanwhile, for the price component, the government-regulated inflation experienced a deflation of 0.03 percent with an inflation contribution of almost 0 percent.
However, there are commodities that dominate the contribution to deflation in this component, namely gasoline.
According to regions, 33 provinces recorded inflation on a monthly basis, while the other 5 provinces experienced deflation.
The highest inflation occurred in South Sulawesi at 1.04 percent. The deepest deflation occurred in West Papua at 0.65 percent.
On an annual basis (year on year/yoy), February 2026 inflation was recorded at 4.76 percent, in contrast to the condition in February 2025 which experienced deflation of 0.09 percent.
He explained that this condition was partly due to the low-base effect, as was the case with the annual inflation in January 2026.
Meanwhile, in January-February 2025, the government implemented a policy of discounted electricity tariffs, so that the price level in that period was below the normal trend and suppressed CPI.
Furthermore, the policy was not found at the beginning of 2026, so that in February 2026, the annual inflation rate was seen as higher even though the actual price dynamics were relatively in line with fundamental trends.
Ateng said the impact of this low base effect was seen from the high annual inflation rate of the housing, water, electricity, and household fuel group in February 2026 which reached 16.19 percent, with an inflation contribution of 2.26 percent.
Furthermore, he said that the food, beverage and tobacco group also experienced annual inflation of 3.51 percent or contributed 1.05 percent to inflation.
Meanwhile, the information, communication and financial services group recorded a deflation of 0.09 percent or contributed almost 0 percent to inflation.
According to regions, all provinces experienced annual inflation and the highest inflation occurred in Aceh, namely 6.94 percent, and the lowest inflation occurred in Papua Mountains, namely 0.63 percent.
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