Finally, the BI Rate Lowered

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In accordance with the expectations of various circles, Bank Indonesia eventually lowers the reference interest rate, the BI Rate, by 25 basis points, to be 9.25 percent.

The decision of the Board of Governors Meeting (Board of Governors’ Meetings), Bank Indonesia was taken after a thorough evaluation of development and economic and financial prospects, both domestic and global.

“The Board of Governors considered that the impact of the financial crisis of the global economy increasingly evident, as seen in world economic growth estimates in 2009 that had fallen from 3.0 percent to 2.2 percent, which also began looking at the impact the national economy,” a Director of the Directorate of Strategic Planning Public Relations and the BI Dyah NK Makhijani in the press, BI, Thursday (4 / 12).

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The Indonesian Bank tightened the monetary policy National

The Indonesian bank (BI) decided to tighten the monetary policy in this year to anticipate all the risks together with the inflation pressure and the global economic unrest. The deputy Governor BI Budi Mulya to the Indonesian Media said various evaluations of the policy of continuing to be carried out on the dynamics of the national economy that happened at this time.

The strong signal took the form of the BI Rate rise 25 basis of the point became 8.25% showed the monetary BI policy direction in controlling the domestic request in order to stifles the risk of the jump of inflation in 2008. Our important target was to achieve low and continuous inflation, he said after attending Workshop Banking Associate of the Indonesian Journalist in Pekanbaru, on Sunday (11/5).

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