Kebanyakan analis memprediksi bahwa inflasi Indonesia akan berakselerasi menjadi sekitar 7,43% pada basis year-on-year (y/y) di bulan Agustus terutama karena inflasi impor. Karena rupiah melanjutkan pelemahan terhadap dollar Amerika Serikat (AS) selama beberapa minggu terakhir sementara Pemerintah Pusat baru-baru ini menaikkan beacukai impor untuk macam-macam produk konsumen, tekanan inflasi diprediksi untuk meningkat.

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Most Asian stock markets are strengthening on Friday after indices on Wall Street rose yesterday on strong US economic growth. The US economy grew 3.7 percent (y/y) in the second quarter of 2015 (much higher than the 2.3 percent estimated previously). As a result, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 2.27 percent while global oil prices rebounded over 10 percent on Thursday (27/08).

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Darmin Nasution, Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economics, told reporters on Thursday (27/08) that the government is set to announce a policy package aimed at supporting the rupiah. The package, set to become effective next week, involves deregulation and tax holidays. Further information is expected to be presented by Indonesian Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro later today.

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Agus Martowardojo, Governor of Indonesia’s central bank (Bank Indonesia), said on Thursday (27/08) that the nation’s economic growth pace is expected to reach 4.89 percent (y/y) in full-year 2015, down from 5.0 percent (y/y) in the preceding year and it would mark the fifth straight year of economic slowing. Earlier this week, Bank Indonesia had already revised down its economic growth forecast to the range of 4.7 - 5.1 percent (y/y) in 2015 (from 5.0 - 5.4 percent previously).

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