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RI HAD US$4.6 BILLION TRADE SURPLUS IN FIRST SEMESTER 2008
Jakarta, Aug 2 (ANTARA) - Indonesia booked a trade surplus of US$4.6 billion in the first semester of 2008 with the surplus in June totaling US$ 0.9 billion, a statistics official said.
The head of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), Rusman Heriawan, said here on Friday Indonesia's year-on-year exports in the first semester of 2008 increased 30.80 percent to US$70.45 billion compared to its imports of US$65.05 billion in the same period.
"Our trade surplus has continued to drop as a result of an extraordinary increase in imports," he said.
Heriawan said Indonesia's exports in January 2008 reached US$12.9 billion or an increase by 34.92 percent from that in the same month a year earlier. Its imports on the other hand were recorded at US$12.02, or an increase of 3.13 percent from those in June 2007.
"If there is no problem in the second semester, our exports will reach US$140 billion. In the last five years, our exports in the second semester of the year have always been higher than in the first semester," he said adding the conumer public's purchasing power would remain good.
The head of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), Rusman Heriawan, said here on Friday Indonesia's year-on-year exports in the first semester of 2008 increased 30.80 percent to US$70.45 billion compared to its imports of US$65.05 billion in the same period.
"Our trade surplus has continued to drop as a result of an extraordinary increase in imports," he said.
Heriawan said Indonesia's exports in January 2008 reached US$12.9 billion or an increase by 34.92 percent from that in the same month a year earlier. Its imports on the other hand were recorded at US$12.02, or an increase of 3.13 percent from those in June 2007.
"If there is no problem in the second semester, our exports will reach US$140 billion. In the last five years, our exports in the second semester of the year have always been higher than in the first semester," he said adding the conumer public's purchasing power would remain good.
