{"id":528792,"date":"2026-07-02T05:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/528792\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:15:54","slug":"indonesia-logs-first-trade-deficit-in-six-years-as-imports-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/528792\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia logs first trade deficit in six years as imports soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/trade\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Southeast Asia&#8217;s largest economy weighed down by higher energy bill<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260701 Oil Tank\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Oil storage tanks in Jakarta:\u00a0Southeast Asia&#8217;s largest economy relies heavily on imported oil, the price of which has soared as a result of the Iran war. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>REZHA HADYAN<\/p>\n<p>July 1, 2026 16:49 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on July 1, 2026 18:40 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">JAKARTA &#8212; Indonesia recorded its first trade deficit in six years in May, as the value of imports soared due to higher oil prices triggered by the <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/energy\/indonesia-hit-by-fuel-shortages-power-outages-as-energy-crisis-deepens\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran war<\/a> and the weakening rupiah, while exports of key commodities declined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade Southeast Asia&#8217;s largest economy weighed down by higher energy bill Oil storage tanks in Jakarta:\u00a0Southeast Asia&#8217;s largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,15875,113,9945,61,8868,1665,60,225117,70350,62635,1628,9947],"class_list":["post-528792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-first","tag-ie","tag-imports","tag-indonesia","tag-ireland","tag-logs","tag-six","tag-soar","tag-trade","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}