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Article: Indonesian central bank expected to raise interest rates
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 16, 2004
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Indonesian central bank expected to raise interest rates
JAKARTA, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian central bank (BI) may
raise its promissory notes (SBI) interest rates to anticipate the US
Federal Reserve plan to raise its interest rates, senior official
said Wednesday.
Anwar Nasution, BI's senior deputy governor, was quoted by
Detikcom online news service as saying that the increase of the SBI
interest rates will not influence the interest rates of bank credit.
He said the SBI interest rates has drastically been lowered from
12 percent last year to 7 percent at present and it did not ...