JAKARTA, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's retail sales accelerated 10.5 percent in December from a year earlier as sales of foods rose, a survey by the country's central bank revealed on Wednesday.
That was a slightly higher than that in November of revised 9.9 percent.
The survey predicted retail sales would expand 9.5 percent in January.
Household consumption contributes the most to the country's gross domestic product growth in Indonesia which is home to over 250 million populations.
Sales of food and clothes regularly rise during Islamic fasting month and ahead of Islamic festivity of Eid al-Fitr as well as prior to Charismas and New Year celebration.
