JAKARTA: Indonesia’s inflation rate shot up in December and its trade balance swung to a deficit after the country’s new president hiked fuel prices by 30 percent a month earlier, data showed on Friday.

December inflation jumped to 8.36 percent year-on-year from 6.23 percent in November.

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