Indonesia's trade surplus soared by 45.91 percent in 10 months ending October 2006 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to the data released by the Central Statistics Agency Friday.

The surplus rose to 32 billion U.S. dollars from 21.9 billion last year.

The report said export rose by 16.36 percent to 82.2 billion dollars from 70.65 billion; while import was up slightly by 3.06 percent to 50.21 billion dollars from 48.72 billion a year earlier.

Japan was the largest of Indonesia's non-oil export destination, amounting to 9.7 billion dollars in the January-October period of the year.

The United States ranked second with 8.96 billion dollars, trailed by Singapore with 6.4 billion, China with 4.4 billion and Malaysia with 3.3 billion.

On non-oil import, China was Indonesia's largest supplier with 4.4 billion dollars, followed closely by Japan with 4.37 billion.

Non-oil import from the United States valued at 3.37 billion dollars, from Singapore 3 billion and from Thailand 2.4 billion.

In October alone, export was down slightly by 0.75 percent to 8. 72 billion dollars, while import fell 20.56 percent to 4.49 billion dollars from the preceding month.

Source: Xinhua