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BI rate increase to cover the inflation pressure

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According to the Central Statistic Agency (BPS), our inflation in May 2008 is around 10.4 percent.  

This condition automatically will influence our economic growht. As we now that the government of Indonesia expects the economy to growht by between 6 – 6.4 percent for this year. For the first qurtal of 2008, BPS was reported the economy had grown 6.3 percent. 

Refer to the inflation, our central bank had raised on Thursday its key interest rate for the second time consecutively in two months to help ease inflation pressure triggered by higher prices of fuel and other commodities in the world. 

Last month, BI raised its rate by 25 basis points to 8.5 percent from 8.25. Increasing 2.5 basis point was moderate and refelection that BI concern about the economic growht, while easing infaltionary prices. 

BI must be manage to maintain the interest rate around 9 percent below to remain our stable economic. BI also plans to ease volatility in the exchange rate, absorb liquidity excess in banks and optimize open market operations in a bid to help put a break on speeding inflation.  

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