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[0] => REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Bank Indonesia (BI) menaikan BI Rate menjadi 7,5 persen dengan tujuan mengurangi defisit transaksi berjalan. Pengamat menilai langkah tersebut tidak akan berhasil, apalagi mengurangi impor minyak dan gas, beban utama dalam transaksi berjalan.
Ekonom Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef), Ahmad Erani Yustika, mengatakan selama ini BI Rate tidak terbukti dapat mengurangi defisit transaksi berjalan. "Tidak ada hubungan yang kuat antara kenaikan BI Rate dan transaksi berjalan," ujar Erani, Rabu (13/11).
Alih-alih memperbaiki transaksi berjalan, Erani mengatakan, kenaikan BI Rate akan mengganggu sektor riil dan menurunkan investasi. "Seandainya problem transaksi berjalan bisa ditanggulangi tapi korbannya pertumbuhan ekonomi dan investasi, itu artinya menyelesaikan masalah dengan masalah baru," ujarnya.
Menurut dia, cara terbaik untuk mengatasi defisit transaksi berjalan dan impor migas adalah dengan kebijakan dari pemerintah, misalnya dengan kebijakan harga minyak, impor, diversifikasi pasar dan meningkatkan daya saing ekonomi nasional.
Ia mengatakan saat ini waktunya pemerintah untuk melakukan pekerjaannya. "BI merasa sendirian, makanya BI mengambil langkah ini. BI tidak salah, tetapi BI seharusnya bilang ke pemerintah kalau ini adalah tugas pemerintah," ujarnya.
Ia juga mengatakan bahwa kenaikan BI Rate bisa jadi merupakan sinyal politik dari BI bahwa pemerintah tidak bekerja.
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[0] => REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA--Bank Indonesia (BI) would allow its benchmark interest rate to remain unchanged at 7.25 percent. "Bank Indonesia's Board of Governors, at their meeting on October 8, 2013, also decide to maintain the deposit facility rate at 5.50 percent and the lending facility rate at 7.25 percent," Bank Indonesia Governor Agus D W Martowardojo said during a press conference in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Agus added that the central bank will keep abreast of global and national economic developments and optimize the mixture of monetary and macro-prudential policies. This steps is to ensure that inflationary pressure will remain manageable, the rupiah's exchange rate will be stable, and the current account deficit will decline to a sustainable level.
"Bank Indonesia will also keep strengthening its coordination with the government, particularly in keeping the inflation rate and the current account deficit in check," he said.
Bank Indonesia, Martojo said, was convinced that the measures and its previous policies would help the current account deficit move to a healthier level and the inflation rate come closer to the range of 4.51 percent for 2014.
"Bank Indonesia has noted that the global economy tends to grow at a slow pace amid high uncertainty (over global economy). The economies of developed countries, such as the United States, Europe and Japan, are not as strong as before the crisis, though they began showing signs of improvement," he said.
He warned that the risk of low economic growth, poor performance of current accounts, and a weakening exchange rate cast still a shadow on the developing countries' economies, while at the same time the prices of commodities, except oil, continue to drop.
In the financial market, he stressed a number of risks were linked to the Fed's decision on its quantitative easing program, debate on debt ceiling and the US government shutdown.
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