US$1,96 Miliar, Defisit Perdagangan Indonesia pada April 2014
Indonesia`s Trade Deficit in April 2014 Reached U.S. $ 1.96 Billion
Reporter : Gatot Priyantono
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) mencatat bahwa neraca perdagangan RI untuk April 2014, mengalami defisit US$1,96 miliar. Hal ini, disebabkan defisit sektor migas dan non migas.
Kepala BPS Suryamin mengatakan bahwa nilai ekspor April mencapai US$14,29 miliar atau mengalami penurunan 5,20% dibanding ekspor Maret 2014. Apabila dibanding periode yang sama pada 2013, capaian ekspor April tahun ini mengalami penurunan sebesar 3,16%.
Adapun nilai impor April 2014, mencapai US$16,26 miliar atau naik 11,93% dibanding Maret 2014. Namun, bila dibanding April 2013, capaian impor ini turun 1,26%.
"Defisit ini disebabkan oleh defisit migas US$1,06 miliar dan nonmigas US$901,5 juta," ujar Suryamin dalam jumpa pers di Jakarta.
Ia menambahkan, untuk periode Januari-April 2014, neraca perdagangan mengalami defisit US$894 juta. Hal ini, karena defisit sektor migas sebesar US$4,91 miliar.
"Tetapi, sektor non migas kita surplus US$3,927 miliar," kata Suryamin.
Jakarta (B2B) - The Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said Indonesia suffered a deficit of US$1.96 billion in international trade in April as against a surplus of US$673.2 million in March.
Head of BPS Suryamin said Indonesia's exports fell 5.92 percent to US$14.29 billion in April from US$15.19 billion in March 2014.
He noted that oil and gas exports made up US$2.63 billion of the total exports in value with other commodities accounting for US$11.66 billion.
He said imports surged to US$16.26 billion in April or an increase of 11.93 percent from US$14.52 billion in March.
The imports included US$3.69 billion in oil and gas with other commodities accounting for US$12.56 billion.
Meanwhile, the countrys inflation was 0.16 percent in May as against a deflation of 0.02 percent in April. Suryamin attributed the inflation to high food price hike. "The prices of manufactured foods, cigarettes and tobacco were the biggest contributors to the price hike," he said.
