JAKARTA: Indonesia booked a budget surplus of 8.1 trillion rupiah ($499.38 million) in the January-March period, or 0.04% of GDP, its finance minister said in a news conference on Friday.

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Sri Mulyani Indrawati also said Indonesia needs to anticipate the impact on the domestic economy of the recent rise in geopolitical tensions and delays in US monetary easing.