Monday, April 30, 2007

Indonesia's Gas Negara First-Quarter Profit Falls on Foreign-Exchange Loss

(Bloomberg) -- PT Perusahaan Gas Negara, Indonesia's biggest publicly traded energy company, said its first-quarter profit fell 26 percent as a foreign-exchange loss countered a rise in revenue from transporting gas.

Net income in the three months ended March 31 declined to 514.5 billion rupiah ($57 million) from 693.6 billion rupiah a year earlier, Gas Negara said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. Gas Negara posted a foreign-exchange loss of 95.35 billion rupiah as a weaker rupiah raised the foreign-currency debt burden.


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