Prices in Indonesia 🇮🇩

In Indonesia, mobile data costs $0.28, coca-cola costs $0.63 and gasoline costs $0.74. That is 14 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in IDR, and as roughly how long someone on 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. VAT rose to 12% recently, with basic necessities exempt, which keeps the tax wedge off exactly the staples that dominate an Indonesian household budget. The interesting tension in the Indonesian row is between cheap prepared food and expensive imported dairy: two items from the same shop with completely different explanations behind their prices.

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
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.23	21,910 IDR	34 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$8.10	144,470 IDR	3.7 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$2.45	40,000 IDR	67 min
Beer (330ml)	$1.84	30,000 IDR	50 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$13.13	214,285.71 IDR	6.0 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.28	—	8 min
A day's healthy diet	$1.57	25,800.17 IDR	43 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. 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 beer, where it ranks 4th out of 42 countries at $1.84, against a global median of $1.00.

It is relatively cheapest for big mac at $2.52, which is 44th of 45, 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 spirits, at roughly 6.0 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Indonesia: 12% VAT. Ordinary groceries: basic necessities exempt. Where these come from.

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Indonesia prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Indonesia?

Pricele publishes 14 everyday prices for Indonesia, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.28, Coca-Cola $0.63, Gasoline $0.74. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.

What currency is used in Indonesia?

Indonesia uses the IDR. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.

What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Indonesia list?

Of the 14 items priced for Indonesia, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.28 and the most expensive is Spirits at $13.13. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Indonesia prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, Web check, 2026, Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Indonesia.