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Higher BI rate not enough to control imports: Central bank

Bank Indonesia` Senior Deputy Governor Mirza Adityaswara has said that imports cannot be controlled through just a ...

The government charges LPEI with a task of boosting exports

The government has charged the Indonesian Export Finance Agency (LPEI) to fully support the country`s export program ...

Budget deficit may stay below 2.38 pct of GDP

The Finance Ministry has predicted that the country`s budget deficit this year may stay below the target of 2.38 ...

Kadin: Lack of confidence triggers economic crisis

Lack of confidence of business players and investors in the government policy was behind the crisis in the exchange ...

Yudhoyono keeping an eye on index and rupiah

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been keeping a close watch on the composite share price index and the rupiah ...

Indonesia cuts balance of payments deficit

Bank Indonesia said the country succeeded in cutting its balance of payment deficit to US$2.5 billion in the second ...

Govt mulling special incentives for special economic zones

The Finance Ministry is considering granting incentives to investors wishing to invest in special economic zones ...

Rupiah continues to lost value against the US dollar

The value of the Indonesian currency rupiah has continued to shrink on fear of potential cut by US central bank of ...

Global condition still determines exchange rate

Acting chief of the Finance Ministry`s Fiscal Policy Agency Bambang Brodjonegoro said he was not worried about rupiah ...

Indoensia's inflation may reach 9 percent

Indonesia's inflation may jump to 9 percent this year under the impact of the recent rise in the prices of subsidized ...

Fuel price hike still in administrative process

The previous discourse which had it that the government would have raised subsidized fuel oil price last May did not ...

New finance minister ready to escort budget revision debate

Newly-installed Minister of Finance Chatib Basri has expressed readiness to escort the debate of 2013 budget revision ...

President officially inducts Chatib Basri as finance minister

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace here on Tuesday officially installed Muhammad Chatib Basri as ...

President asks new finance minister to manage fiscal policy well

Chatib Basri said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked him to manage the fiscal policy. "I was asked to ...

Indonesia can achieve 6.6 pct economic growth this year

Amid predictions of lower economic growth by international institutions, Bank Indonesia (BI) is still convinced that ...