The USD $130 trade surplus in August is the first monthly trade surplus in five months. In July, the country recorded a record USD $2.3 billion deficit adding pressures on the country's current account deficit. In the second quarter of 2013, Indonesia's current account deficit stood at USD $9.8 billion, or 4.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), mainly due to a large deficit in the country's oil & gas sector.

Exports between January and August 2013 accumulated to USD $119.32 billion, while imports in the same period stand at USD $124.86 billion, implying a USD $5.54 billion trade deficit in the first eight months of 2013.

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