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Trade between Indonesia and Myanmar

In 2024, Indonesia exported $674 million to Myanmar and imported $613 million. Indonesia ran a surplus of $60 million with Myanmar, compared with a surplus of $964 million in 2019. Myanmar was Indonesia’s 39th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Indonesia was Myanmar’s 8th (3%).

Summary

Indonesia → Myanmar
$674million
Myanmar → Indonesia
$613million
Indonesia’s balance
$60million

Balance

Indonesia’s trade balance with Myanmar

Trade between Indonesia and Myanmar grew 7.8-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Indonesia’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 0.7
  • Imports 0.6
  • Balance +0.1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$60 million$105 million-$45 million
1996$78 million$33 million$45 million
1997$139 million$19 million$120 million
1998$152 million$9 million$143 million
1999$73 million$19 million$53 million
2000$65 million$22 million$43 million
2001$108 million$21 million$87 million
2002$54 million$31 million$23 million
2003$46 million$15 million$31 million
2004$60 million$17 million$43 million
2005$78 million$14 million$64 million
2006$138 million$20 million$118 million
2007$262 million$30 million$232 million
2008$251 million$30 million$221 million
2009$175 million$29 million$146 million
2010$329 million$34 million$294 million
2011$513 million$75 million$438 million
2012$473 million$68 million$405 million
2013$750 million$77 million$672 million
2014$970 million$134 million$836 million
2015$697 million$175 million$522 million
2016$1.1 billion$132 million$928 million
2017$1.2 billion$157 million$1 billion
2018$1.3 billion$163 million$1.1 billion
2019$1.2 billion$195 million$964 million
2020$1.1 billion$203 million$927 million
2021$1.2 billion$173 million$1 billion
2022$1.1 billion$121 million$1 billion
2023$1 billion$148 million$873 million
2024$674 million$613 million$60 million

What they sell each other

What Indonesia sells to Myanmar

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Palm oil$526 million · 78.1%
    536 thousand tonnes · Indonesia’s destinations
  2. Writing and printing paper$26 million · 3.8%
    27 thousand tonnes
  3. Refined petroleum$17 million · 2.6%
    8 thousand tonnes · Indonesia’s destinations
  4. 517 tonnes
  5. Bread, biscuits and pastries$12 million · 1.8%
    5 thousand tonnes
  6. Cars$7 million · 0.98%
    663 tonnes · Indonesia’s destinations
  7. Pesticides and herbicides$5 million · 0.74%
    218 tonnes
  8. Fragrance mixtures$4 million · 0.59%
    303 tonnes
  9. Margarine$4 million · 0.55%
    3 thousand tonnes
  10. Cigarettes and cigars$4 million · 0.54%
    248 tonnes · Indonesia’s destinations

What Myanmar sells to Indonesia

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Rice$489 million · 79.7%
    848 thousand tonnes · Indonesia’s sources
  2. 72 thousand tonnes · Myanmar’s destinations
  3. Airplanes and helicopters$30 million · 4.9%
    22 tonnes
  4. Natural rubber$6 million · 0.9%
    4 thousand tonnes
  5. Bags, suitcases and cases$4 million · 0.64%
    372 tonnes
  6. Other sugars$3 million · 0.56%
    4 thousand tonnes
  7. Unwrought lead$2 million · 0.33%
    1 thousand tonnes
  8. 16 tonnes
  9. Transformers and power supplies$958 thousand · 0.16%
    24 tonnes
  10. Rubber and plastic footwear$885 thousand · 0.14%
    36 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Jakarta to Yangon.

The estimated sea route between Jakarta and Yangon is 1,625 nautical miles (3,010 km) long: ≈ 4–5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Malacca and Singapore.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$1.2 billion · 96.9%
  2. Air$40 million · 3.1%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Myanmar was Indonesia’s 39th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Indonesia was Myanmar’s 8th (3%).

Myanmar in Indonesia’s trade
0.2%
Myanmar’s rank among Indonesia’s partners
39th
Indonesia in Myanmar’s trade
3.2%
Indonesia’s rank among Myanmar’s partners
8th

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Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.