The month of March brought signs of strengthening demand conditions. New order inflows rose from the previous month. However, this was caused by solid domestic demand as export sales declined further. In response to greater demand, Indonesian manufacturing companies raised their production volumes for the first time in three months.

Higher output made manufacturing companies decide to scale up purchasing activity and build-up inventories of input materials. In fact, the rate of increase in buying activity was the strongest since May 2018. The accumulation in stocks of purchases was also the quickest for over four-and-a-half years and solid overall.

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