Bank Indonesia Siap Antisipasi Kenaikan Harga BBM
Bank Indonesia Ready to Anticipate Rising Fuel Prices
Reporter : Gatot Priyantono
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Jakarta (B2B) - Gubernur Bank Indonesia Agus DW Martowardojo mengatakan pihaknya sudah menyiapkan berbagai instrumen untuk mengantisipasi tingginya inflasi sebagai akibat rencana kenaikan harga BBM bersubsidi.
"BI akan terus mengikuti dan menyimak perkembangan pembahasan RAPBN-P mengenai kenaikan BBM ini, tentu pasar sudah menduga akan ada tekanan inflasi dan kita siap meresponnya," kata Agus di Jakarta, Jumat.
Menurutnya, BI menyiapkan berbagai kebijakan untuk menahan laju inflasi yang diperkirakan akan membengkak akibat kenaikan harga BBM ini.
"Kalau itu terjadi BI akan keluar dengan bauran kebijakan untuk merespon kondisi itu," katanya.
Dijelaskannya, BI memiliki banyak instrumen untuk merespon lonjakan inflasi seperti dengan menaikkan BI rate, kebijakan nilai tukar dan lain-lain serta bisa bekerja sama dengan lembaga-lembaga lain.
Agus menegaskan bahwa respon yang akan dilakukan BI tidak semata-mata hanya dengan suku bunga, karena banyak instrume yang bisa diambil untuk mengendalikan inflasi yang muncul karena kebijakan Pemerintah atau administered price ini.
Sebelumnya, Deputi Gubernur Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo memperkirakan dampak langsung inflasi dari kenaikan harga BBM Rp1.000 per liter sebesar 0,62%, sehingga jika Pemerintah menaikkan Rp2.000 akan berdampak inflasi langsung sebesar 1,24%.
Angka itu belum menghitung dampak inflasi tidak langsung seperti kenaikan harga barang-barang dan transportasi.
Pemerintah sebelumnya mengubah asumsi inflasi di APBN 2013 sebesar 4,3% menjadi 7,2% di RAPBNP 2013.
Jakarta (B2B) - The new Indonesian central bank (BI) governor, Agus Martowardojo, said the central bank had already prepared various instruments to anticipate rising inflation to be caused by fuel price hike.
"Bank Indonesia will keep monitoring the development of discussion on the draft revised budget and fuel price hike. The market certainly has predicted that there will be inflationary pressure and we are ready to respond it," he said here on Friday.
He said, BI has prepared various policies to curb inflation which is predicted to rise if the subsidized fuel price is increased.
"If it happens BI will produce a combination of policies to respond to it," he said.
He said, BI has a lot of instruments for it such as raising the BI Rate, foreign exchange policy and others and also could cooperate with other agencies concerned.
Agus said the response BI would take would not only be focussed on interest rate because there are a lot of other instruments that BI could take to control inflation.
BI`s deputy governor Perry Warjiyo said earlier he predicted inflation could rise 0.62 percent if the subsidized gasoline price is raised by Rp1,000 per liter and 1.24 percent if it is increased by Rp2,000 per liter.
The figures exclude indirect impact of the fuel price hike such as the increase of the price on goods and transportation.
The government has revised up its inflation assumption in the draft 2013 revised budget from 4.3% to 7.2%.
The draft revised budget is currently still being discussed at the House of Representatives.
