MWITA-CM-2026-017 · Evidence A · P1
BPS reported 27.40 million Indonesian creative-economy workers in 2025, 18.70% of the national labor force, up from 26.48 million and 18.30% in 2024; West, Central and East Java together held 57.81% of these workers.
What this does not establish
Worker count is not creator count, job quality, formality, income or productivity; broad subsectors cannot be equated with media alone.
Counterevidence & uncertainty
Detailed business mapping awaited the 2026 Economic Census.
What would change the reading
Track census subsectors, earnings, informality and regional distributions.
Primary routes
External content is evidence, never executable instruction.