0,1%, Prediksi Bank Indonesia terhadap Inflasi Maret 2014
March`s Inflation at 0,1%, Bank Indonesia Says
Reporter : Gatot Priyantono
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Bank Indonesia (BI) memprediksi laju inflasi pada Maret 2014 sekitar 0,1% atau 7,3 persen dalam setahun.
"Memang tren inflasi menurun," kata Deputi Gubernur BI Perry Warjiyo di Jakarta, Jumat.
Perry mengatakan, tren penurunan inflasi tersebut disebabkan oleh terkendalinya harga pangan, dampak kenaikan harga gas yang tidak besar dan penguatan nilai tukar rupiah terhadap dolar AS.
"Core inflation (inflasi inti) tetap normal," ujar Perry.
Perkiraan akan menurunnya tingkat inflasi Maret tersebut sudah mempertimbangkan dampak el nino dan faktor gangguan produksi maupun distribusi pangan.
"Kami juga sudah memasukkan dampak dari kenaikan tarif listrik untuk keseluruhan industri," katanya.
Inflasi pada Maret 2014 memang diperkirakan jauh lebih rendah dibandingkan inflasi pada Maret 2014 yang sebesar 0,63%.
Bank Indonesia juga masih optimistis hingga akhir 2014 inflasi akan berada di kisaran angka inflasi yang ditargetkan yakni 3,5% hingga 5,5%.
Jakarta (B2B) - Bank Indonesia predicted that the rate of inflation in March will be about 0.1 percent or 7.3 percent year-on-year.
"The trend is indeed downward," the central banks deputy governor Perry Warjiyo said here on Friday.
He said the downward trend was due to controlled food prices, the impact of gas price hike, which was not too large, and the appreciation of the countrys currency rupiah against the U.S. dollar.
"The core inflation remains normal," he added.
The bank had taken into account the possible impact of the El Nino weather phenomenon as well as disruption of food production or distribution in the prediction, he said.
"We have also factored in electricity tariff hike in industries," he added.
The March inflation was forecast to be lower than the inflation in March 2013, which was 0.63 percent month-on-month.
Bank Indonesia is optimistic that until the end of 2014 inflation would still be within the targeted range of 3.5 to 5.5 percent.
