Cutting out the Candidates
Two of Bank Indonesia's deputy governors have at last completed their terms of office. Who will replace them? Will we have to wait for the amendments to the central bank law?
March 13, 2001
WHICH ROUND are we at now in the fight over who will get the top position at Bank Indonesia? It's not at all clear. What is certain, however, is that the central bank is no longer capable of defending the rupiah, as the local unit broke through the psychological barrier of 10,000 against the US dollar last Friday. Continuing legal proceedings in the court case against Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) Syahril Sabirin over the last few weeks has not
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