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Indonesia registers 454.4 mln USD trade surplus in April

Xinhua, May 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indonesia recorded a 454.4 million U.S. dollars of surplus in its foreign trade throughout April this year with India and the United States partly contributed the most to the surplus figure, Indonesian Trade Minister Rahmat Gobel said here on Monday.

Rahmat said that the overall surplus came out from around 1.3 billion U.S. dollars of surplus in non-oil and gas commodities trade and 877.9 million U.S. dollars deficit of trade in oil and gas sector.

"In cumulative, the nation's total trade balance until April this year recorded a surplus of 2.8 billion U.S. dollars, came from surplus in non-oil and gas commodity sector at 4 billion U.S. dollars and deficit in oil and gas commodities sector at 1.3 billion U.S. dollars," the minister said in his office.

According to the minister, the deficit in oil and gas trade sector apparently increased 6.9 percent compared to the figure in March this year.

The minister said that countries contributed mostly to Indonesia's surplus in non-oil and gas sector last month were India, the United States, the Philippines, the Netherlands and Pakistan. Endi