Jakarta, Feb. 11 -- The novel coronavirus outbreak has become a new challenge for the world's economy and Indonesia is predicted to suffer a slowdown in its economic growth of around 0.23 percent as a result of China's downturn of one percent, an Indonesian official said. The prediction that the Indonesian Trade Ministry had made was lower than that of the world, Head of the ministry's Trade Research and Development Division Kasan said here Tuesday commenting on the impact of the virus outbreak on Indonesia's economy.

The World Bank has predicted that Indonesia's economic growth might suffer a downturn of up to 0.3 percent as a result of this new coronavirus outbreak whose epicenter is in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei P...