00:00 The Center on Reform on Economics or CORE Indonesia
00:03 predicts that the trade surplus in October 2023
00:06 will not be much different from the surplus in the previous month.
00:09 However, CORE notes that the surplus is not healthy
00:12 due to the global situation that also pressures the condition of the national industrial import.
00:17 The Director-Executive of CORE Indonesia, Muhammad Faisal,
00:24 predicts that the trade surplus throughout October 2023
00:29 will return to a surplus of around US$3 billion.
00:33 Despite the fact that the surplus occurred,
00:36 not due to an increase in exports, but due to the delay in domestic imports.
00:40 According to Faisal, this situation cannot be proud of,
00:44 considering the surplus occurred in the midst of a global pressure that also pressures national exports.
00:49 With the exports and imports being pressured,
00:51 the surplus that occurred in the last few months cannot also push economic growth.
00:56 This condition makes the government need to push various policies
00:59 that can anticipate the worsening of the global economic situation
01:02 and still maintain the competitiveness of domestic industries.
01:05 For October, we predict that the surplus that occurred is not much different
01:13 compared to the surplus that occurred in the previous two months,
01:17 namely in September and August,
01:20 at around US$3 billion.
01:24 But the point is the same, that the surplus of around US$3 billion,
01:30 if we look at it from the export side,
01:32 the global economic condition is still not conducive.
01:39 Previously, the Statistics Agency noted that the trade surplus
01:44 in September 2023 was US$3.42 billion.
01:48 The figure is lower than September 2022, which reached US$4.99 billion.
01:55 From Jakarta, Rajupat Moh, IDX Channel.
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