Lampung gets foreign exchange from EU

Lampung gets foreign exchange from EU

BANDARLAMPUNG, Lampung: Lampung province earned US$252.8 million in foreign exchange from exporting non-oil and gas products to 11 European Union countries in the first semester of this year, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

This represented a steep increase over the foreign exchange earnings of the province in the same period last year, which totaled US$164.3 million, said Suryono, the director of the Lampung provincial administration's Cooperative, Trade and Industry Agency.

The non-oil and gas products in question included coffee, other agrarian and handicraft products.

In total, foreign exchange earnings from all sources by Lampung province amounted to US$681.7 million, while the total quantity of goods exported in the first semester of this year amounted to 2.01 million tons. -- Antara