JAKARTA, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — Indonesia’s commerce surplus reached 3.48 billion U.S. {dollars} in October, marking the forty second consecutive month in commerce surplus, confirmed information launched by Statistics Indonesia BPS on Wednesday.
“In October, the trade surplus from the non-oil and gas sector, which amounts to 5.31 billion dollars, was lessened by the deficit of 1.83 billion dollars in the oil and gas sector,” deputy for distribution and repair statistics Pudji Ismartini informed a press convention.
Although down 10.43 p.c in comparison with October final 12 months, the export worth in October was 22.15 billion {dollars}, up 6.76 p.c from the earlier month.
The import worth was recorded at 18.67 billion {dollars} in October, up 7.68 p.c from September, and down 2.42 p.c from a 12 months earlier.
From January to October, China accounted for 25.42 p.c of Indonesia’s non-oil and gasoline exports, adopted by the United States with 9.55 p.c, and India with 8.17 p.c, confirmed the BPS information.
Meanwhile, the highest three international locations for non-oil and gasoline imports to the Southeast Asian nation had been China, Japan and Thailand, taking over 33.09 p.c, 9.02 p.c and 5.55 p.c, respectively.