Indonesia - Wholesale Price Index

For Indonesia, the detailed wholesale price index measures changes in prices in the manufacturing and distribution sector of the economy. It tends to lead the consumer price index by 60 to 90 days. The index is often quoted separately for food and industrial products.

Active:

• Framework: Per UN recommendations
• Industry classification: ISIC
• Measurement: Fixed-base index relative to 2023 (Index 2023=100)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start dates:
• Reported from 2025m1
• Extended to 1971m1 - General index only

Predecessors:

• 2018=100 - 2019m1 to 2024m12 ("_18")
• 2010=100 - 2013m10 to 2019m12 ("_10")
• 2005=100 - 2009m1 to 2013m10 ("_05")
• 2000=100 - 1997m1 to 2008m12 ("00")

Global concept aliases:

• WPI

[As of 2020] price data arecollected from 33 provincial capital cities and 111 other potential cities/towns, assumed to have major companies and traded varied goods. As of 2025 it is 38 provincial areas. As of 2025, a total of over 50,000 prices are collected each month.

Respondents are selected from companies considered representative enough on trading commodities, so that all commodities covered could represent the Wholesale Price for each province.

Price data are collected directly from respondents every month, by direct interview. That is, individual establishments, personal visits and a paper recording form.

[As of 2020] the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is disaggregated into five commodity groups: Agriculture, Manufacturing, Mining and Quarrying, Imports and Exports, where each sector consists of subcommodity groups. The number of commodities in each group is presented in brackets. The total number of commodities is 257.

As of 2025, Compilation of Weighing Diagram Survey (SPDT) WPI Provincial 2023 is used.

Moody's Analytics supplements

For the all-items index, we back-extend the history by splicing predecessors; we construct a seasonally adjusted counterpart.

Yes. Data are revised when new data becomes available.

The index base year is periodically advanced.

Further reading

At IMF (SDDS):

• Price index: Producer prices (Jan 2025 / Feb 2025)

• Sep 2005 - Initial version.
• Feb 2010 - Rebased to 2005.
• Aug 2012 - Moody's Analytics back-extension.
• Dec 2013 - Rebased to 2010.
• Feb 2020 - Rebased to 2018.
• 21 Feb 2025, Phillip Thorne - Rebased to 2023: Properties, Methodology.