{"id":693201,"date":"2026-05-25T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693201\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:16:12","slug":"indonesia-faces-vicious-stagflation-japan-consumer-goods-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693201\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia faces &#8216;vicious&#8217; stagflation: Japan consumer goods firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Kao Indonesia boss warns economy struggling with supply- and demand-side pressures<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260525 Kao Products\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Kao products line the shelves of a store in Jakarta: The Japanese consumer products maker is being squeezed at both ends by weak spending and higher costs.\u00a0(Photos by Natsumi Kawasaki)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">JAKARTA &#8212; Indonesia faces the prospect of &#8220;vicious&#8221; stagflation, the local head of a Japanese consumer products company has warned, with consumers scaling back spending as a depreciating currency and the Iran war drive inflation higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Kao Indonesia boss warns economy struggling with supply- and demand-side pressures Kao products line the shelves of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,6016,164,54916,58430,61462,4805,941,59535,70283],"class_list":["post-693201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-consumer","tag-economy","tag-faces","tag-firm","tag-goods","tag-indonesia","tag-japan","tag-stagflation","tag-vicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}