Jakarta's Annual Inflation in April 2026 Lower Than Last Year

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) for DKI Jakarta stated that the annual inflation rate in Jakarta for April 2026 was 2.12 per cent, or 1.25 per cent lower than the same month last year, which was 3.37 per cent. “The significant decline in annual inflation for April 2026 was influenced, among other things, by the absence of the low-base effect due to the normalisation of electricity tariffs after the discount in March 2026,” said the Head of BPS DKI Jakarta, Kadarmanto, in Jakarta on Monday. Based on expenditure groups, the annual inflation in April 2026 was contributed by the personal care and other services group with a contribution of 0.82 per cent, followed by the food, beverages, and tobacco group (0.45 per cent), and transportation (0.22 per cent). Meanwhile, based on commodities, the main contributors to the capital’s annual inflation in April 2026 were jewellery gold with an inflation contribution of 0.70 per cent; followed by broiler chicken meat (contribution 0.20 per cent); air transport (contribution 0.15 per cent); rice (0.12 per cent); and cooking oil (0.07 per cent). BPS DKI recorded several commodities that dampened the pace of annual inflation in Jakarta in April 2026, namely shallots with a deflation contribution of 0.1 per cent; then garlic (deflation contribution 0.07 per cent); red chillies (deflation contribution 0.06 per cent); bird’s eye chillies (0.03 per cent); and mobile phones (0.03 per cent). Meanwhile, on a monthly basis, Jakarta experienced inflation of 0.21 per cent in April 2026 compared to March 2026, dominated by an increase in the price index of the transportation group with a contribution of 0.19 per cent. The commodities contributing the largest inflation share in that group were air transport fares and petrol with contributions of 0.15 per cent and 0.04 per cent, respectively. “The high air transport inflation was triggered by rising avtur prices and the normalisation of air transport fares after the Lebaran discount,” said Kadarmanto. Regarding petrol, the price increase for non-subsidised petrol on 18 April led to that commodity experiencing monthly inflation of 0.73 per cent and contributing 0.04 per cent to inflation in DKI Jakarta.