• Indonesia Investments to Launch New Website Design on Wednesday

    On Wednesday (26/08) Indonesia Investments will launch its completely redesigned website. The website gets a full makeover to make it more compatible with mobile and tablet devices hence improving the user experience on these devices. Moreover, the website is designed to become faster, more user-friendly, and will contain several new features. However, the launch of the new design also implies that Indonesia Investments will be offline for several hours on Wednesday. We apologize sincerely for this inconvenience.

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  • Can Bank Indonesia’s US Dollar Purchase Restriction Support the Rupiah?

    Last week, Indonesia’s central bank (Bank Indonesia) refrained from adjusting its relatively high interest rate regime as it is committed to support the ailing rupiah and combat high inflation. Another decision that was revealed by Bank Indonesia is the soon-to-be-introduced regulation that limits total (non-collateral) monthly US dollar purchases to USD $25,000 (down from USD $100,000 previously). This regulation will be implemented in a move to thwart speculators that want to take advantage of the weak and volatile rupiah.

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  • Indonesia Investments' Newsletter of 23 August 2015 Released

    On 23 August 2015, Indonesia Investments released the latest edition of its newsletter. This free newsletter, which is sent to our subscribers once per week, contains the most important news stories from Indonesia that have been reported on our website in the last seven days. Most of the topics involve economic subjects such as Indonesian stocks and the rupiah, the July trade balance, Bank Indonesia’s interest rates, the 2016 State Budget draft, geothermal power development, land rights available to foreign investors, and more.

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  • Global Markets on Fire: What Happens to the Rupiah & Indonesian Stocks?

    The Indonesian rupiah continues to flirt with a 17-year low as the currency is getting closer and closer to the IDR 14,000 per US dollar level. Meanwhile, Indonesian stocks took another blow as the country’s benchmark stock index (Jakarta Composite Index) fell 2.39 percent on Friday (21/08). Such turmoil is not only confined to Indonesia but was felt across Asia and the West. Markets were plagued by selloffs in energy shares (due to falling oil prices) and uncertainty about the timing of higher US interest rates.

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