"Compared with the fourth quarter of 2010 the economy expanded 1.5 percent," BPS Chief Rusman Heriawan said here on Thursday.
Investment grew 7.3 percent, exports 12.3 percent and imports 15.6 percent. Meanwhile, household consumption rose 4.5 percent and government spending 3 percent.
"Normally, government spending falls (in the first quarter). With the 3 percent growth, the government spending is better than that in the first quarter of 2010," he said.
Overall, the industrial, trade, hotel and restaurant sector and the transportation sector respectively contributed 1.3 percent to the first-quarter growth.
Rusman said the agricultural, husbandry, forestry and fishery sectors in the first quarter of 2011 grew 18.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2010.
"This is because we entered harvest time for rice and other food crops in the first quarter of 2011," he said.
He said the transportation and communication sector grew 13.8 percent, the trade, hotel and restaurant sector 7.9 percent and the financial, real estate and financial service sectors 2.7 percent in the first quarter of 2011 compared with the same period last year.
"The communication sector recorded significant growth due to an increase in the number of cellular phone users," he said. (*)
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