Turun US$60 Juta, Cadangan Devisa September 2014
Indonesias Foreign Exchange Reserves Fell US$60 Million
Reporter : Gatot Priyantono
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Cadangan devisa Indonesia pada akhir September 2014 turun sebesar 60 juta dolar AS, dari 111,224 miliar dolar AS pada Agustus 2014 menjadi 111,164 dolar AS.
"Posisi cadangan devisa pada September relatif stabil dari posisi akhir bulan sebelumnya," kata Direktur Eksekutif Departemen Komunikasi Bank Indonesia, Tirta Segara, di Jakarta Senin.
Tirta mengatakan, perkembangan cadangan devisa tersebut dipengaruhi antara lain untuk pembayaran utang luar negeri pemerintah dan intervensi valuta asing dalam rangka stabilisasi nilai tukar rupiah.
Di sisi lain, lanjut Tirta, penerimaan devisa juga meningkat terutama berasal dari penerbitan sukuk global dan hasil ekspor migas pemerintah serta kenaikan simpanan deposito valuta asing bank-bank di Indonesia.
Posisi cadangan devisa per akhir September tersebut dapat membiayai 6,5 bulan atau 6,3 bulan impor dan pembayaran utang luar negeri pemerintah, serta berada di atas standar kecukupan internasional sekitar 3 bulan impor.
"BI menilai perkembangan cadangan devisa tersebut positif terhadap upaya memperkuat ketahanan sektor eksternal dan menjaga kesinambungan pertumbuhan ekonomi Indonesia ke depan," kata Tirta.
Jakarta (B2B) - Indonesias foreign exchange reserves fell US$60 million by the end of September from US$111.224 billion a month earlier.
The position of the countrys foreign exchange reserves was relatively stable in September, Executive Director of Communications Department of Bank Indonesia Tirta Segara said here on Monday.
Tirta attributed the decline to repayments of foreign debts and market intervention by the central bank to protect rupiah.
The central banks has bought US dollar to protect rupiah from sharp fall.
Tirta said foreign exchange revenues from the sales of global sharia bonds, and exports and increase in foreign exchange deposits in Indonesian banks were not enough to offset the decline caused by the debt repayment.
The reserves by the end of September were enough to finance imports and service foreign debts for 6.5 months, or still above international adequacy standard of 3 monts, he said.
"BI considers the developments in the foreign exchange reserves as positive in guaranteeing the sustainability of the countrys economic growth," he said.
