Indonesia-Economic and political outline

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Published: 06 Oct 2008 17:42:02 PST

Economic indicators

GDP Indicators	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
GDP (billions USD)	257.005	286.957	364.239	410.317	444.641
GDP (constant prices, annual % change)	5	5.7	5.5	6.2	6.1
GDP per capita (USD)	1187.742	1309.081	1640.337	1824.133	1951.36
General government balance (in % of GDP)
Inflation rate (%)	6.1	10.5	13.1	6.3	6.2
Unemployment rate (% of the labor force)	9.1	9.1
Current Account (billions USD)	9.1	9.1
Current Account (in % of GDP)	1.564	0.278	9.976	6.574	5.271

Source: IMF - World Economic Outlook Database

Note: (e) Estimated data

Breakdown of economic activity by sector	Agriculture	Industry	Services
Value added (annual % change)	4.063276	3.879575	6.72084
Value added (in % of GDP)		43.86	40.71
Employment by sector(in % of total employment)	44.3%	18.8%	36.9%

Source: - last available data.

Foreign trade indicators	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Imports of goods (millions USD)	35651.88	39546.18	50614.84	63856.08
Exports of goods (millions USD)	59165.11	64109.24	70767.13	86178.65
Imports of services (millions USD)	17044.88	17400.42	20856.31	23728.04
Exports of services (millions USD)	6662.904	5292.887	12045.43	12925.54
Imports of goods and services (annual % change)	-4.249454	1.563734	27.06803	12.34784	8.594851
Exports of goods and services (annual % change)	-1.217034	5.88638	13.50243	8.603108	8.9
Trade Balance (millions USD)	23513.23	24563.07	20152.29	22322.57
Current Account (millions USD)	7823.524	8106.792	1563.018	929.3086
Foreign trade (in % of GDP)	59.07946	53.46751	58.92629	61.50485	53.46751
Imports of goods and services (in % of GDP)	26.39184	22.98986	27.15906	28.6279	28.63745
Exports of goods and services (in % of GDP)	32.68762	30.47766	31.76723	32.87695	30.15732

Source:

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Economic Organizations: http://www.bps.go.id/index.shtml">Statistical Office
http://www.bi.go.id/web/en">Central Bank of Indonesia
http://www.idx.co.id/">
Jakarta Stock Exchange
Ministries: http://www.depkeu.go.id/Ind/">Ministry of Finance
Online newspapers: http://www.balipost.co.id/">Bali Post
http://web.bisnis.com/">Bisnis Indonesia (in Indonesian)
http://www.republika.co.id/">Republika (in Indonesian)
Search Engines: Indo
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Economic portals

Executive Power
Legislative Power
Main political parties: Indonesia has a multi-party system where a single party does not often have a chance of gaining power alone. Thus parties need to work together to form coalition governments. The major political parties in Indonesia are:
- PD (Democratic Party) - advocates Pancasila the Buddhist code of ethics;
- Golkar (Functional Groups Party) initially an alliance of NGOs opposing communism, now advocates democratic and liberal values;
- PBB (Crescent Moon and Star Party) a moderate Islamist party;
- PDI-P (Indonesia Democratic Party-Struggle) based on Pancasila ideology, a split-away group of PD lead by ex-President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Current political leaders: President: Susilo Bambang YUDHOYONO (since October 2004) - PD
Vice-President: Muhammad Yusuf KALLA (since October 2004) - Golkar
Next election dates: Presidential: Year 2009
Parliamentary: Year 2009