2016, Business Expansion Still Concentrated in Java

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) has completed the 2016 Economic Census (SE2016), which began in May 2016. The census recorded a 17.51 percent increase in the number of businesses/companies to 26.71 million in Indonesia compared to 10 years prior. Java Island still dominates the number of businesses/companies with 16.2 million, equivalent to 60.74 percent of the total number of businesses/companies in Indonesia.

The distribution of businesses/companies across islands generally shows that 79.35 percent are concentrated in West Indonesia (Sumatra and Java Islands). The remainder are located in East Indonesia (Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua Islands), with the highest number of businesses/companies in Sulawesi Island (8.09 percent).

Subsequently, BPS will conduct a second phase of the census in August-September 2017 to obtain data on capital structure, costs, and other data. Therefore, the data presented here are preliminary results.