Head of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Rusman Heriawan said here on Tuesday industrial exports accounted for 64.25 percent of the country`s total exports in January 2011.
The BPS data showed that the industrial product exports included footwear, staple fiber and various other chemical products.
Footwear exports in January 2011 were worth US$274.8 million, higher than the same exports in January 2010 which stood at US$195,8 million, or in December 2010 which totaled US$260.9 million.
The value of Indonesia`s synthetic staple fiber exports in January 2010 was recorded at US$149.6 million. It rose to US$205.9 million in December 2010 and US$206.9 million in January 2011.
The exports of a number of chemical products also increased from US$77.7 million in January 2010 to US$224.5 million in December 2010 and US$230.2 million in January 2011.
However the exports of machinery/mechanic goods and electricity appliances experienced a decline in the first month of 2011.
Apart from industrial products whose exports were increasing, the exports of agricultural commodities also went up in the first month of this year.
The BPS chief said that agricultural product exports in the January 2011 period increased by 6.03 percent compared with that in the same period last year.
In the meantime the exports of mining goods also increased by 4.06 percent in January 2011 if compared with that in the corresponding period in the previous year.
The two types of commodities respectively contributed 2.68 percent and 15.65 percent to the country`s total exports in January 2011, he said.
(Uu.A014/HAJM/S012)
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