Our Economy Has Not Recovered, Imports Of Capital Goods, Etc. Still Memble

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JAKARTA - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) stated that the value of Indonesia's imports in January 2021 fell 7.9 percent to US $ 13.3 billion from the previous 14.4 billion in December 2020.

In addition, when compared to an annual basis or year-on-year, the realization of imports in January this year is also smaller than January 2020, which amounted to 14.2 billion US dollars.

Head of BPS Suhariyanto said the largest decline in imports of non-oil and gas goods in January 2021 compared to December 2020 was machinery and mechanical equipment at US $ 371.3 million (17.16 percent). Meanwhile, the largest increase was in pharmaceutical products with US $ 148.6 million (133.78 percent).

"The three largest suppliers of non-oil and gas imports during January 2021 were China 4.15 billion US dollars (35.18 percent), Japan 870 million US dollars (7.35 percent), and Singapore 690 million US dollars (5.82 percent). , "He said Monday, February 15.

Suhariyanto added that non-oil and gas imports from ASEAN were recorded at 2.12 billion US dollars (18 percent) and the European Union at 750 million (6.40 percent).

"According to the category of use of goods, the import value of January 2021 against December 2020 saw a decrease in consumer goods of US $ 291.7 million (17 percent), raw / auxiliary materials US $ 267.5 million (2.2 percent), and capital goods 537. million US dollars (21.2 percent), "he said.

These results then impacted Indonesia's trade balance in January 2021, which experienced a surplus of US $ 1.96 billion, which came from the non-oil and gas sector with a record of US $ 2.63 billion. Meanwhile, in the oil and gas sector, there was a deficit of 670 million US dollars.