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Indonesia growth slows to 6 percent in 1Q
Indonesia's economic growth slowed to a still robust 6 percent in the first quarter of the year as mining output decreased
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Indonesia's economic growth slowed to a still robust 6 percent in the first quarter of the year as mining output decreased.
Statistics Indonesia said Monday that the growth rate was down from 6.1 percent in the final quarter of 2012.
Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy with annual gross domestic product of almost $1 trillion.
The statistics agency said economic activity in the mining and quarrying industry was down 0.4 percent from a year earlier in the first quarter while transport and communications increased 10 percent.
Compared with the fourth quarter of 2012, Indonesia's economy grew 1.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, boosted by the rice harvesting season.
