Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesia’s digital economy has generated at least 44.55 trillion IDR (2.7 billion USD) in tax revenue over the past few years, according to government data announced on December 29.
The figure combines the tax revenue from digital goods, financial technology (fintech) or peer-to-peer lending, crypto assets, as well as the government procurement information system (SIPP).
Senior tax official Rosmauli said that the 44.55 trillion IDR tax revenue shows how large the digital economy is contributing to the state receipts.
Indonesia began collecting value-added tax (VAT) from digital goods and services in July 2020. The revenue from this sector had totaled 34.54 trillion IDR as of 2025, contributed by 215 companies.
In 2020, the digital VAT totaled 731.4 billion IDR in 2020 before jumping to 3.9 trillion IDR the following year. The succeeding growth trend is as follows: 5.51 trillion IDR (2022), 6.76 trillion IDR (2023), 8.44 trillion IDR (2024), and 9.19 trillion IDR (2025).
By November, the government had appointed as many as 254 eligible digital companies to collect taxes from the transactions made in their respective platforms. OpenAI — the company behind the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT — became the latest addition to this list of digital VAT collectors.
Southeast Asia’s biggest digital economy registered 1.81 trillion IDR in crypto taxes within the same period. Indonesia’s annual crypto tax revenue had almost tripled from just 246.45 billion IDR in 2022 to 719.61 billion IDR in 2025.
Taxes from financial technology (fintech) or peer-to-peer lending activities totaled 4.27 trillion IDR in 2022-2025. This sector’s collections witnessed a similar jump from 446.39 billion IDR in 2022 to 1.24 trillion IDR about three years later.
SIPP collects taxes from other digital economy businesses. The system has collected at least 3.94 trillion IDR in tax revenue since 2022, data showed./.
