Rekor Terparah 2013, Rupiah Terjungkal di Rp10.738/USD

JAKARTA - Pergerakan nilai tukar Rupiah mulai pekan ini terus menunjukkan hal terburuk. Bahkan pada pukul 11.15 WIB tercatat di posisi Rp10.708 per USD.

Demikian pergerakan Rupiah yang tercatat pada perdagangan kurs tengah Bloomberg, Selasa (20/8/2013). Bahkan, Rupiah terus tergerus pada pukul 11.39 WIB di pisusu 10.738 per USD.

Rupiah terus terperosok dari perdagangan kemarin di posisi Rp10.578 per USD pada perdagangan Senin 19 Agustus sore.

Sementara berdasarkan catatan kurs tengah Bank Indonesia (BI) Rupiah berada di posisi Rp10.504 per USD.

Penurunan rupiah ini terjadi karena neraca perdagangan Indonesia yang belakangan ini terus mencatatkan defisit. Selain itu, faktor domestik lainnya adalah karena reaksi atas asumsi makro pada APBN 2014 yang dinilai kurang pro terhadap pasar.

Sementara itu, dari sisi eksternal, kebijakan Bank Sentral Amerika Serikat yang akan menghentikan paket Quantitative Easing (QE) III, membuat panik pelaku pasar global. Karena kebijakan moneter itu dinilai sebagai penyelamat kondisi ekonomi dunia yang tengah rapuh.

"Mereka menilai pertumbuhan ekonomi sangat lemah. Di sisi lain suku bunga tidak bisa diturunkan, sehingga pelaku pasar menggunakan mata uang sebagai alat untuk menyelamatkan portofolio asetnya," ujar ekonom Societe Generale Guillaume Salomon, di London, seperti dikutip Reuters.


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BCA Tetapkan Kurs Jual Rupiah Rp11.050/USD

JAKARTA - Nilai tukar rupiah kembali anjlok pada siang hari ini. Tak tanggung-tanggung, rupiah drop ke atas level Rp10.700 per USD.

Lalu, bagaimana dengan kurs yang ditetapkan oleh perbankan?

Berdasarkan penelurusan Okezone, Selasa (20/8/2013), PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA) menetapkan kurs jual Rp11.050 per USD, sementara untuk kurs beli Rp10.650 per USD.

Sementara PT Bank Nasional Indonesia Tbk (BNI) membanderol kurs jual Rp10.995 per USD, di mana kurs beli di level Rp10.595 per USD.

Lalu PT Bank OCBC NISP Tbk (NISP) menetapkan kurs beli di Rp9.733 per USD, sementara kurs jual di Rp10.634 per USD.

Rupiah, pada pukul 11.15 WIB tercatat di posisi Rp10.708 per USD. Demikian pergerakan rupiah yang tercatat pada perdagangan kurs tengah Bloomberg, Selasa (20/8/2013).

Rupiah terus terperosok dari perdagangan kemarin di posisi Rp10.578 per USD pada perdagangan Senin 19 Agustus sore. Sementara berdasarkan catatan kurs tengah Bank Indonesia (BI) Rupiah berada di posisi Rp10.504 per USD. (wdi)

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For anyone following the economic turmoil in India, the combination is depressingly familiar: A record high current-account deficit. A weakening currency. A spike in inflation. A fall in the stock market.

The same recipe that is creating India’s worst economic crisis in decades is now afflicting Indonesia, too. Consumer prices jumped 8.6 percent last month, the Jakarta government announced last week. Thanks to the slowdown in China, demand for Indonesian coal, palm oil, and other exports is falling, hurting the country’s trade balance. Indonesia has been running a current account deficit for the past seven quarters, and the central bank on Aug. 16 announced the current-account deficit had hit $9.8 billion. That’s the largest deficit ever and amounts to 4.4 percent of Indonesian GDP.

Investors in the Southeast Asian country’s stock market are worried about the parallels with India. Like India’s rupee, the Indonesian rupiah is suffering from a loss of confidence. The rupiah today fell to 10,500 against the dollar, a four-year low. The benchmark Jakarta Composite Index plunged 5.6 percent today, with volume more than 30 percent higher than the past month’s average, and has lost 8 percent of its value in the past two days. Since the start of July, the market is down more than 10 percent, making it the worst performer among the 94 global indexes tracked by Bloomberg.

In Southeast Asia, it’s not just Indonesia that’s in trouble. More bad news today came from Bangkok, with the latest economic numbers from Thailand showing that country has fallen into a recession. Thailand’s GDP contracted 0.3 percent in the second quarter compared with the first three months of the year. That’s the second quarterly contraction in a row for Thailand, which like its neighbors has suffered from a slowdown in Chinese demand.

The Asian economies are suffering as global investors prepare for the end of the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy. While it’s unclear how much tapering we’ll see from the Fed and when, emerging markets such as India and Indonesia are already feeling the pressure as investors begin shifting their money back to the U.S. “Among the region’s economies, Indonesia and India are bearing the brunt of the reversal of capital flows in anticipation of QE tapering, exacerbated by domestic factors,” economists Stephen Schwartz, Weiwei Liu, and George Xu of BBVA Research (BBVA) wrote in a report published today.

While the Indian government and central bank have unveiled measures to support the rupee, investors are unimpressed, with the rupee today falling to a new low of 62.8 against the greenback. “Looking ahead,” the BBVA team wrote, “bolder structural reforms, including greater fuel price liberalization, land acquisition reforms, and higher foreign investment limits in insurance, pension management and the pharmaceuticals industry are crucial to regain investor confidence and shore up the rupee.”
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