Paket Kebijakan Ekonomi Direspon Positif, BI Apresiasi Pemerintah
Bank Indonesia Appreciate the Government`s Economic Policy Package
Reporter : Rizki Saleh
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Jakarta (B2B) - Bank Indonesia (BI) mengapresiasi Paket Kebijakan Ekonomi yang telah diluncurkan dalam tiga tahapan, yaitu Paket Kebijakan tahap pertama, kedua, dan ketiga.
“Kami sangat mengapresiasi komitmen pemerintah untuk terus melakukan reformasi di structural reform, dan kami juga melihat kebijakan di paket kedua yang untuk menambah suplai valas di pasar spot dan suplai valas di pasar forward ini juga sudah berdampak positif kepada ekspektasi orang, dengan mulai menjual dolar-dolar yang mereka mungkin kemarin berspekulasi menumpuknya,” kata Deputi Gubernur Senior BI, Mirza Adityawarman kepada pers di kantor Kepresidenan, Jakarta pada Rabu petang (7/10).
Mirza mengatakan bahwa membaiknya situasi pasar keuangan dalam beberapa hari terakhir sebagaimana terlihat dari menguatnya nilai tukar mata uang rupiah terhadap dollar AS, merupakan gabungan dari faktor eksternal dan faktor domestik.
Faktor eksternalnya, jelas Mirza, adalah angka-angka ekonomi Amerika Serikat (AS) yang menunjukkan agak sedikit melemah, terutama di angka unemployment-nya sehingga konsensus dari kenaikan suku bunga AS sekarang ini mulai bergeser. Yang tadinya dikhawatirkan kenaikannya mungkin bulan Oktober mungkin bulan Desember sekarang bergeser mungkin di kuartal satu bahkan mungkin di kuartal dua.
“Nah, ini membuat di pasar keuangan terjadi pembalikan ya beberapa investor, dan juga mungkin beberapa spekulan yang tadinya beli dollar lebih awal mereka melakukan cut loss di, di pasar keuangan. Ini juga terjadi di, di kita lihat di selain di Indoensia juga di Malaysia di negara-negara emerging market yang lain,” tutur Mirza.
Sementara faktor internal, menurut Deputi Gubernur Senior BI itu, tentu adalah respons positif pasar melihat dari komitmen pemerintah melakukan deregulasi. Ia menjelaskan, paket pertama, paket kedua, paket ketiga, memang disambut positif yang menunjukkan bahwa kita serius melakukan structural reform.
“Nah, structural reform ini mulai dari pariwisata, juga dari bagaimana perizinan-perizinan di berbagai sektor, ini tentu dalam jangka menengah panjang akan menurunkan inflasi, dan juga dalam jangka menengah panjang akan menambah suplai valas di Indonesia,” kata Mirza.
Mirza juga menunjuk sambutan positif pasar atas paket kebijakan ekonoi pemerintah itu, selain pasar valuta asing rupiah yang menguat cukup signifikan tiga hari ini, juga pasar obligasi negara yang menyambut sangat positif.
“Yield obligasi negara yang rate-nya sempat naik mendekati 10% per hari ini sekitar 8,4%. Artinya, kalau rate-nya turun, ongkos pembiayaan pemerintah untuk membiayai APBN itu juga arttinya turun ya membaik,” pungkasnya.
Jakarta (B2B) - Bank Indonesia appreciates the Economic Policy Package has been launched in three stages, namely the Policy Package for phase first, second, and three.
“We greatly appreciate the government’s commitment to continue reforms in structural reform, and we also look at the second policy package that to increase the supply of currency in the spot market and the supply of currency in the forward market, this also has a positive impact to the expectations of people to start selling dollars that perhaps they speculate accumulated yesterday,” Senior Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia Mirza Adityawarman told reporters at the Presidential office on Wednesday evening (7/10).
He said, that the improvement in financial markets situation in recent days, as seen from strengthening of the rupiah against the US dollar, is a combination from external factors and domestic factors.
Mr Adityawarman added, the external factors is the economic figures of the United States, which shows a little bit weaker, particularly in its unemployment figures so that the consensus from the current US interest rate hikes is starting to shift.
"Who initially feared increase is possible in October or December, now shifted possible in the first quarter even possible in the second quarter," he said.
“Well, this makes financial market reversal from some investors, and also possible some speculators who had bought the dollar earlier, they were to cut loss in the financial markets. This occurs besides in Indonesia also in Malaysia and in other emerging market countries.”
According to him, while internal factors of course is a positive response from market to see the government’s commitment to deregulate. The first package, the second package, the third package, it was greeted positively, which is showing that we are serious about structural reform.
He also pointed to the market positive response on the government’s economic policy package, besides the foreign exchange market of rupiah, which rose significantly three days, that state bond market also welcomed very positively.
Mr Adityawarman also pointed to the market positive response on the government’s economic policy package, besides the appreciation of rupiah quite significantly in the foreign exchange market during this three days, that government bond market also welcomed very positively.
”Government bond yields that its rate had climbed to nearly 10 percent per day, or approximately 8.4 percent. It means that if the rate was down, the government financing cost to finance the state budget also means decreased, its certainly improved,” he said.
