"The exports to the three countries contributed about 31.86 percent to the total non-oil commodity exports."Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Central Board of Statistics (BPS) said Indonesia`s non-oil commodity exports in March increased 12.88 percent to US$13.32 billion compared with that a month earlier.
"If compared with that in the previous year, it also increase by 25.62 percent," BPS Chairman Rusman Heriawan said when he announced the monthly official statistics data here on Monday.
He said that the biggest export increase in March 2011 occurred with the rubber commodity group, namely reaching US$201.4 million while the biggest decline happened with the fat and vegetable oil commodity group at US$559.7 million.
Most of the non-oil commodity exports in March 2011 were shipped to Japan (1.53 billion dollars), the United States (1.41 billion) and China (1.3 billion).
"The exports to the three countries contributed about 31.86 percent to the total non-oil commodity exports," he said.
He said that Indonesia`s non oil commodity exports to European countries were worth 1.69 billion dollars and ASEAN countries 3.20 billion dollars with a market share of 13.40 percent and 23.31 percent respectively.
The BPS chairman also said that in the first three months of 2011, non oil exports also were recorded at a high level reaching 37.12 billion or an increase of 28.66 percent if compared with the corresponding period in 2010.
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