Farming, which softened the slowdown in the first quarter, may not have helped in the second. Growth of crude palm oil production slowed to 17 percent from 27 percent in the first quarter, and rubber production fell 22 percent, twice the decline in the first quarter.
The central bank may revise its economic growth forecast of between 5 percent and 6 percent for 2001. Economists polled by Bloomberg News expect growth to slow to 0.8 percent this year from last year's 8.3 percent.
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