JAKARTA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's state revenue up to the end of February 2021 was recorded at 219.2 trillion rupiahs (15.2 billion U.S. dollars), or 12.6 percent of the target set in the state budget of 1,743.6 trillion rupiahs, a minister said Tuesday.

The state revenue grew by 0.7 percent (year-on-year/yoy) compared to that in the same period of 2020, which was valued at 217.6 trillion rupiahs, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told a virtual trade conference here on Tuesday.

"It is interesting that our state revenue has grown by 0.7 percent. In February last year when the pandemic had not occurred yet, our state revenue contracted by 0.1 percent," she noted.

The minister said the state revenue of 219.2 trillion rupiahs consisted of the tax income worth 181.8 trillion rupiahs, the non-tax income valued at 37.3 trillion rupiahs and the grant amounting to 0.1 trillion rupiahs.

According to her, the tax income in February 2021 grew by 1.7 percent (yoy) compared to 178.6 trillion rupiahs in the same month of 2020 and was better than that in January 2021, which contracted 3.7 percent.

Meanwhile, the non-tax income which was recorded at 37.3 trillion rupiahs in February 2021 or 12.5 percent of the target of 298.2 trillion rupiahs contracted about 3.7 percent compared to 38.8 trillion rupiahs in the same month last year, she said. (1 U.S. dollar equals 14,403 Indonesian rupiahs) Enditem

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