Minister of Trade (Mendag) Muhammad Lutfi said Indonesia's export trend has increased. He reported that in the period from January to June 2021, Indonesia's total exports were worth Rp. 100.2 billion. Where the non-oil and gas sector is around 97.06%.

"This means that the growth in the first semester of 2021 is 34.06 percent from the first semester of 2021 or worth US$ 97.1 billion, growing bigger than in the same period in 2020," said Trade Minister Lutfi.

Trade Minister Lutfi also said that Indonesia's trade balance in the first half of 2021 showed a surplus of US$ 11.8 billion, a positive surplus or where non-oil and gas grew or a surplus of US$ 17.5 billion, while the oil and gas balance was in a deficit of US$ 5.7 billion.

In addition, Lutfi also explained that the growth of iron and steel in the period January to June 2021 reached US$ 8.79 billion, compared to US$ 4.56 billion or 19.74% yoy growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the same period. same in 2020.

The good news is that Lutfi conveys not only iron and steel which shows that Indonesia is no longer an importer of semi-finished goods, but also high-tech industrial goods.

Most importantly, in motor vehicles and their spare parts, Indonesia has exported around US$ 6.6 billion in 2020, but down from US$ 8.6 billion in the same period in 2019.

"Today this figure has grown by 54.58% compared to the same period in 2020, which is around US$ 4.38 billion," he concluded.

Further information, the five non-oil and gas products with the highest growth in June 2021, namely coffee, tea and spices grew 56.94% positively, processed seafood products 49.17% and motor vehicles 42.19%.

Then textile products and knitted textile products (TPT) are 40.58%, and non-knitted TPT products are 33.97%.