Indonesia Resilience Economy, OJK Reveals Several Global Challenges In 2025

Deputy Commissioner for Capital Market Investment Management and OJK Effect Institute Aditya Jayantara (center). (Photo: Aris Nurjani/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Financial Services Authority (OJK) revealed that in 2025 there will be several challenges that need to be anticipated in encouraging economic growth next year.

Deputy Commissioner for Capital Market Investment Management and OJK Securities, Aditya Jayantara, said that there are a number of challenges in 2025, such as the trend of inflation and trends in central bank interest rates, geopolitical tensions that have not subsided, as well as economic protection policies from the United States.

"The challenges we need to anticipate, ranging from global GDP inflation and growth trends, central bank interest rate trends, and of course geopolitical tensions that are still fighting, and the trend of economic policy direction from Uncle Sam, which in our opinion tends to be a little protective," he explained at the press conference. inauguration of the closing of Indonesia's stock exchange trading in 2024, Monday, December 30.

Nevertheless, Aditya said that amid increasing global market uncertainty which had an impact on economic growth in many countries, Indonesia's national economy still showed positive and relatively stable performance.

Aditya said, in the third quarter of 2024, economic growth was recorded at 4.95 percent year on year (yoy).

"Alhamdulillah, our national economy is still quite positive and tends to be stable. So if we look at the economic growth in the third quarter of 2004, we still reach 4.95 percent (yoy)," he explained.

On the other hand, Aditya conveyed that Indonesia's capital market performance in the past year has shown extraordinary resilience, although global challenges continue to grow in 2024.

In addition, Aditya said, Indonesia has also gone through an important moment, namely by successfully holding presidential elections, legislative elections, and regional head elections, all of which have a positive impact on capital market stability.

"We have gone through the presidential election process, legislative elections and regional elections that we can go through well to protect our capital market," he said.