just a blip in the overall picture. Consumer confidence is trending sharply upward, and will continue to do so with the occasional blips due to quakes and other political shocks now and again. All the indicators for the next few months and years are positive and moving up, so I'd not put too much into this.

Consumer Confidence Index Drops Due to Yogya Earthquake Thursday, 20 July, 2006 | 20:16 WIB TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The consumer confidence index plunged again in June, after the earthquakes in Yogyakarta and Central Java. Based on a survey by the Danareksa Research Institute, the consumer confidence index dropped 0.9 percent to 84.7, with the fall of the Central Java index by 8.7 percent.