JAKARTA, May 5 (Reuters) - Indonesia's economy grew a
faster than expected 5.03% on a yearly basis in the first three
months of the year, official data showed on Friday.
The Southeast Asian country's gross domestic product (GDP)
contracted 0.92% on a quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted basis
in the January-March period, data by Statistics Indonesia
showed.
A Reuters poll had expected GDP to expand 4.95% from a year
earlier versus 5.01% growth in the fourth quarter, and contract
1% on a quarter-on-quarter basis.
(Reporting by Stefanno Sulaiman, Gayatri Suroyo and Fransiska
Nangoy; Editing by Kanupriya Kapoor, Martin Petty)
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