REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) said Indonesia`s imports were valued at 16.33 billion USD in July, up 0.75 percent year-on-year (yoy). The country`s imports in the same month last year were worth 16.21 billion USD.

BPS chief Suryamin said here today imports in July included oil and gas worth 2.73 billion USD and other commodities valued at 13.36 billion USD. This agency also reported the country`s inflation was 0.95 percent in August higher than 0.7 percent-0.8 percent predicted by the central bank earlier.

Indonesia`s import of capital goods in the first semester of 2012 rose 34.9 percent to 19.4 billion USD year-on-year, according to the Trade Ministry. Indonesia`s imports in the first half of 2012 meanwhile reached 96.4 billion USD, a 15.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said recently.

Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said in a press conference on Friday that the import of consumer goods rose by 6.5 percent to 6.8 billion USD from a year earlier. However, the import of raw and auxiliary materials increased 11.8 percent to 70.3 billion USD year-on-year, he said.

The strong growth in the import of capital goods and raw materials was attributed to growing investment inflows and rising demand for industrial products, he said. He said the import of capital goods recorded the highest growth due to rising demand for imported products such as airplanes and spare parts which rose 73.7 percent and motor vehicles and spare parts (45.3 percent), iron and steel products (43.3 percent) and mechanical appliances (25.4 percent).

Non-oil/non-gas imports in the first half of 2012 increased 16.5 percent to 74.9 billion USD from the same period last year. Oil/gas imports in the January-June 2012 period reached 21.4 billion USD, an increase of 11.4 percent compared to the same period last year, fueled by rising gas demand which surged 149.8 percent to 1.8 billion USD, he said. "Our total imports in June 2012 reached 16.7 billion USD, down by 2.1 percent from a month earlier," he said. 

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