JAKARTA: Indonesia’s trade balance swung to a slim deficit in June as imports of food and clothes rose ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and Eid holiday, official data showed on Monday.

The deficit in Southeast Asia’s top economy came in at $305 million, compared to a slim surplus of $70 million the previous month, according to the data from the national statistics agency. People in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation typically splash out on expensive food to break the fasting during Ramadan, and on lavish clothes to wear to celebrate Eid.

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