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The anatomy of jobless growth: Why 5.39% expansion isn't enough for Indonesia

Academia 4 days ago

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The anatomy of jobless growth: Why 5.39% expansion isn't enough for Indonesia

Beyond the 5.39 percent headline, Indonesia’s economy is trapped in a cycle of "jobless growth" that prioritizes respectable statistics over stable careers.

Indonesia must pivot from headline growth to quality job creation

Academia 4 days ago

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Indonesia must pivot from headline growth to quality job creation

Despite demonstrable resilience, as long as economic policy prioritizes headline growth over the creation of high-quality jobs, the country risks leaving an entire generation of educated youth behind in a cyclic trap of informal jobs and wasted potential.

Resilient, realistic growth

Editorial 1 week ago

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Resilient, realistic growth

An aggressive growth target may lift headline GDP, but it could also inflate asset prices, strain the state budget and erode investor confidence in fiscal policy.

New deputy finance minister guns for 5.6% first-quarter GDP growth

Economy 1 week ago

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New deputy finance minister guns for 5.6% first-quarter GDP growth

Just under a week since he was sworn in last Thursday, the ex-Bank Indonesia deputy governor is setting his sights accelerated state spending this quarter to reach up to 5.6 percent growth from an initial 5.5 percent target.

Indonesia’s growth: Resilient but uneven

Economy 1 week ago

Indonesia’s growth: Resilient but uneven

Although formal job creation has improved, job quality, reflected in income stability, benefits and productivity, remains unequal.

Indonesian economic growth tops 5% on consumption boost

Economy 2 weeks ago

Indonesian economic growth tops 5% on consumption boost

The figures come days after the country's stock market suffered its worst crash in decades after index compiler MSCI threatened a downgrade over the transparency of the free-float stocks.

Indonesia’s economy: Closing 2025 on a firmer footing

Economy 2 weeks ago

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Indonesia’s economy: Closing 2025 on a firmer footing

Strong household consumption, fiscal acceleration and transmission from government capital spending to investment may be sufficient to grow economic growth faster in Q4 2025.

Extractive-led economic growth fuels environmental crisis

Society 3 weeks ago

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Extractive-led economic growth fuels environmental crisis

Around 283,000 hectares of forest, four times the size of Jakarta, were lost throughout 2025 to make way for various extractive businesses across the country, according to the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi).

To Lam’s Vietnam: An economic growth lesson for Prabowo

Academia 3 weeks ago

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To Lam’s Vietnam: An economic growth lesson for Prabowo

For years, Indonesia has looked toward Thailand as a model for agriculture and tourism. It is time we apply that same humility to Vietnam.

Second best policy and the danger of doing too much

Academia 3 weeks ago

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Second best policy and the danger of doing too much

When the government tends to do something rather than do nothing, we must be more cautious about the dangers of doing too much.

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