Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Ministry of Finance recorded that the government`s total debts up to December 31, 2010 reached Rp1,676 trillion, according to a report by the ministry`s debt management directorate general here on Thursday.

The Directorate General of Debt Management said in its report, January 11, 2011 edition, that the figure was still provisional using the exchange rate of Rp8,991 per US dollar.

It said that the central government`s debts totaled Rp1,676 trillion consisting of US$68.04 billion (36.5 percent) in external loans and US$118.39 billion or Rp1,064 trillion (68.04 percent) in the form of securities.

The external loans of US$68.04 billion (Rp612 trillion) consisted of bilateral loans valued at US$41.83 billion, multilateral loans US$23.13 billion, commercial ones worth US$3.02 billion and supplier debts accounting for US$0.06 billion.

In the meantime, securities consisted of state bonds in the foreign currency denomination worth US$18.02 billion and in the rupiah denomination valued at US$100.37 billion.

If the debts are broken down based on their creditor countries/institutions, some 30.49 billion or (44.8 percent) of the 68.04 billion dollar debts came from Japan, 11.15 billion dollar (16.4 percent) from the Asian Development Bank, 11.37 billion dollars (16.7 percent) from the World Bank and 15.05 billion others (22.1 percent) came from other sources.

Compared with that in 2009, the government`s debts in 2010 showed an increase. The total debts of the central government in 2009 stood at Rp1,590.66 trillion or US$169.22 billion dollars with an exchange currency rate of Rp9,400 per US dollar.
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