Indonesia

The Asia-Pacific region will face some stern tests in 2008-10. While we believe that the rise of Asia arguably represents the most significant shift in wealth in five hundred years... 2008-10-31

In line with our view, the Indonesian rupiah has continued its slide against the greenback, having tentatively breached the psychologically important IDR10,000/US$ support level on... 2008-10-24

Despite financial markets bouncing sharply across Asia over the past two days following the recent coordinated response to the unfolding crisis around the world, we continue to highlight... 2008-10-14

Asia's financial markets are enjoying a strong bounce in line with the US Dow Jones and coordinated international action to relieve tight credit conditions, but they are not out of... 2008-10-14

Although we retain a bearish view towards all Asian stock markets as the deepening global financial crisis continues to spark heightened risk aversion among investors, we caution... 2008-10-06

Despite headline consumer price inflation slowing to 11.77% y-o-y in October, from 12.14% in September, and growth concerns continuing to mount, Bank Indonesia (BI) kept its benchmark... 2008-10-06

Although the authorities will likely continue intervening in the forex market in an effort to keep the rupiah artificially strong, we reiterate that this policy has only a limited... 2008-09-28

Asian currencies are seeing some encouraging bounces, amid a pronounced rebound in equities and a renewed weakening of the US dollar. In the short term, we could see further upside,... 2008-09-22

BMI View: In view of the sharp falls in Asian currencies lately, we have been forced to re-assess our end-2008 and even end-2009 forecasts. We see further declines in the short term.... 2008-09-18

Indonesia's financial markets are once again looking decidedly dicey. The rupiah on September 12 touched an eight-month low of IDR9,465/US$, after crashing through the IDR9,450/US$... 2008-09-12