Prices in Indonesia 🇮🇩
What 7 everyday items cost in Indonesia, shown in US dollars, in IDR, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Indonesia is among the cheapest countries in the game for prepared food and fuel, both of which have long histories of state price management. Dairy is the outlier: little is produced domestically, so milk is imported and priced accordingly.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $2.52 | 42,500 IDR | 69 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.63 | 10,000 IDR | 17 min |
| Cappuccino | $1.54 | 27,778 IDR | 42 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.18 | 21,285 IDR | 32 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $1.49 | 26,877 IDR | 41 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.50 | 45,095 IDR | 68 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $0.74 | 13,348 IDR | 20 min |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage — the roughest number on this page. See methodology.
How Indonesia compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Indonesia is most expensive for apples, where it ranks 21st out of 32 countries at $2.50 — against a global median of $2.84.
It is relatively cheapest for big mac at $2.52, which is 32nd of 33 — only 1 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 69 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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Indonesia comes up in the daily puzzle roughly once every 33 days, paired with a different item each time. Play today's puzzle or browse the archive of past rounds.