JAKARTA, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia's exports in December fell 5.76% on a yearly basis to $22.41 billion, less than the 8.1% drop expected in a Reuters poll, data by the statistics bureau showed on Monday.

The bureau is due to release import and trade balance data later on Monday. (Reporting by Stefanno Sulaiman, Fransiska Nangoy and Gayatri Suroyo)