Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia’s cumulative trade recorded a surplus of 4.03 billion USD during the January–May 2026 period, with exports totaling 115.36 billion USD and imports amounting to 111.33 billion USD.
As reported by the country’s national news agency Antara, speaking at a press conference in Jakarta on July 1, Ateng Hartono, Deputy for Distribution and Services Statistics at the Statistics Indonesia (BPS), said that cumulative exports in the first five months of the year rose 3.02% year-on-year.
The manufacturing sector made the largest contribution to export growth, accounting for 5.38%.
Imports in the January–May period climbed 15.24% year-on-year, driven mainly by a 10.35% increase in imports of raw materials and intermediate goods, Hartono said.
In May alone, Indonesia posted a trade deficit of 1.61 billion USD. May exports fell 5.73% from a year earlier, while imports jumped 22.1%, he said./.
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