Indonesia’s 2025 Budget: Aiming High
Manggi Habir|Siwage Dharma Negara
The Indonesian budget for 2025 is set to accommodate some of President-elect Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious goals.

Manggi Habir|Siwage Dharma Negara
The Indonesian budget for 2025 is set to accommodate some of President-elect Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious goals.
Eugene Mark
The next administration has a chance to right the wrongs perpetuated by the outgoing president, whose administration has allowed private and vested interests to overrule or ignore indigenous land rights in Indonesia’s hungry quest for development.
Manggi Habir|Siwage Dharma Negara
Indonesia is striving to achieve rice self-sufficiency, amid rising geopolitical and global rice market uncertainties. The country must take climate change and its disrupting impact on food production more seriously.
Maria Monica Wihardja|Arief Anshory Yusuf
Indonesia has improved the quality of its institutions in recent decades, but has backslid lately. The country’s potential accession to the OECD presents an opportunity to foster institutional deepening and help sustain long-term economic growth.
Suryaputra Wijaksana|Maria Monica Wihardja
Digitally delivered services exports could be the silver lining, if not a silver bullet, in an increasingly challenging world for Indonesia’s economy, which is clouded by its stubborn growth deficit.
Manggi Habir
The next president of Indonesia will have his work cut out for him on the economic and competitiveness front, even if he continues with many of the existing policies his predecessor will leave behind.
Manggi Habir
Indonesia’s present banking landscape bears the imprint of the 1997-8 financial crisis. The sector is stronger but, as regional interest shows, has room for further consolidation and development.
Manggi Habir|Siwage Dharma Negara
This Long Read examines the trends and developments in the digital transformation of Indonesia’s banking landscape. These look set to benefit a large swathe of Indonesia’s 270 million population which remains unbanked and underbanked.
Maria Monica Wihardja
The government elected next year will have a long to-do list, not least of which is to continue pursuing meaningful development as Indonesia aspires to reach high income status by 2045.
Manggi Habir|Siwage Dharma Negara
Indonesia’s banking sector is likely to withstand higher interest rates given certain fundamentals that will insulate it from the volatility seen elsewhere.