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About 2,500 firms declared themselves insolvent and sought protection from their creditors in the first quarter of this calendar year, up more than 35 percent from a year earlier, analysts at the Jakarta Economic Institute reported Thursday.
The number of corporate bankruptcies is the third largest on record for this period, reflecting significant failures in the performance of small-and mid-size domestic companies. While the drop in the value of the Indonesian rupiah has actually boosted the exports of some large companies, making their production and labor costs more competitive, smaller domestic firms have been hit hard by falling sales and by cheaper imports from China and India, as the economic slump continues.
Economists at the Jakarta Economic Institute, a government think tank affiliated with the Ministry of Finance, predicted that the prime minister would seek release of loan guarantees to smaller companies in order to stem the wave of business failure and to get them through the current credit crunch.

单选题 What is the main purpose of this article?
A. To inform readers about current government policies
B. To report a change in the value of the national currency
C. To provide information on the state of the business economy
D. To give the details of a new loan guarantee program

单选题 According to the article, why are so many businesses failing?
A. Higher priced raw materials
B. Excess domestic competition
C. Declining sales
D. Continued deflation

单选题 What is the Jakarta Economic Institute?
A. A corporate accounting group
B. A private, non-profit think tank
C. A large educational association
D. A government-sponsored research group