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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