Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Indonesia's economy slipped into a recession for the first time since the Asian financial crisis in 1998, data released by the statistics bureau revealed Thursday.
Gross domestic product fell 3.49 percent on a yearly basis in the third quarter after shrinking 5.32 percent in the second quarter. Economists had forecast an annual decline of 3 percent.
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