Head of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Suryamin said in Jakarta on Thursday that this condition boosted Indonesia`s oil/gas exports in January 2011, and also dropped drastically by 14.66 pct from 3,485.0 million US dollars to 2,974.1 million US dollars.
Oil exports increased by 5.41 pct to 375.5 million US dollars, while oil/gas exports in January 2012 against December 2011 (according to state oil company Pertamina and Upstream Oil and Gas Regulator BP Migas) for crude oil and oil products dropped by 40.35 pct and 5.50 pct respectively, and also gas exports dropped by 7.91 pct.
In the meantime, the price of Indonesia`s crude oil on the world market increased from 97.11 US dollars per barrel in December 2011 to 115.91 US dollars per barrel in January 2012.
Non-oil/gas exports also dropped by 7.90 pct from 13,592.7 million US dollars to 12,519.4 million US dollars.
All in all, Indonesia`s exports in January 2012 dropped by 9.28 pct compared to those in December 2011 namely from 17,077.7 million US dollars to 15,493.5 million US dollars.
But compared to January 2011, the January 2012 exports increased 6.07 pct, caused by the increase in nonoil/gas exports by 4.40 pct and oil/gas exports by 13.73 pct.
The biggest drop in non-oil/gas exports in January 2012 against those in December 2011 took place in mineral fuel (HS 27) to 619.3 million US dollars, and the biggest increase took place in animal/vegetable fats and oil (HS 15) to 213.5 million US dollars.
Other commodities with a decline in their exports included mechanical machinery/engines (HS 84) to 65.7 million US dollars; rubber and goods made of rubber (HS 40) 62.6 million US dollars; electrical machinery/equipment (HS 85) 38.5 million US dollars; and paper/carton (HS 48) 24.1 million US dollars.
Besides commodities with an increase like animal/vegetable fats and oil, are copper (HS 74) 106.5 million US dollars; ore, crust and metal ash (HS 26) 80.9 million US dollars; vehicles and their parts (HS 87) 54.2 million US dollars; and iron and steel (HS 72) 13.3 million US dollars.
In January 2012, the exports of the 10 categories of commodities (HS 2 digits) contributed 63.64 pct of the non-oil/gas exports. With regard to growth, the exports of the 10 different commodities increased by 4.93 pct against the same month in 2011. In the meantime, the role of non-oil/gas exports other than the 10 different commodities in January 2012 reached 36.36 pct.
Indonesia`s non-oil/gas exports in January 2012 to Japan, China, and the US respectively reached 1,607.9 million US dollars, 1,359.4 million US dollars and 1,196.3 million US dollars, with the three of them playing a role of 33.26 pct.
The decline in the non-oil/gas exports in January compared to those in December 2011 mostly took place with the main destinations like China to 788.8 million US dollars; Singapore 104.7 million US dollars; the US 87.9 million US dollars; South Korea 78.0 million US dollars; Taiwan 61.0 million US dollars; France 9.0 million US dollars; Australia 7.5 million US dollars; and Germany 3.0 million US dollars. On the other hand, the exports to India increased to 166.5 million US dollars, Thailand 42.7 million US dollars; Malaysia 39.9 million US dollars; Japan 5.2 million US dollars and the UK 3.8 million US dollars.
While the exports to the European Union (27 countries) in January 2012 reached 1,596.3 million US dollars. All in all, the total exports to the 13 main destinations dropped 8.97 pct.
In January 2012, Japan is the biggest export destination with a contribution of 12.84 pct, China 10.86 pct, and the US 9.56 pct.
The export of manufactured products in January 2012 increased 2.08 pct and mining products and others increased by 14.82 pct, while the export of farm products dropped 1.82 pct.
With regard to the contribution to the total exports in January 2012, the export of manufactured commodities reached 61.21 pct, while the export of farm products 2.48 pct, and the contribution of the export of mining and other products reached 17.11 pct, while the contribution of oil/gas exports reached 19.20 pct.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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