Jakarta, hitclubapk3 Indonesia
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Minister of Finance (Minister of Finance)
Sri Mulyani
offending the ‘acrobat’ of the US President
Donald Trump
In the midst of determining the exchange rate of Rp16,500 per dollar in the 2026 Draft State Budget.
The exchange rate assumption is lower than the first year of President Prabowo Subianto’s leadership.In 2025, the rupiah exchange rate was set at Rp. 16 thousand per US dollar.
“Discussions in the DPR with an exchange rate of Rp16,500-Rp16,900 (per US dollar), at that time the atmosphere of discussion with the DPR and Bank Indonesia was indeed illustrated that the exchange rate was pressured,” he explained at the 2026 Draft State Draft State Secretary Conference and Financial Note at the DGT office, South Jakarta, Friday (15/8).
The woman who is familiarly called Ani said the discussion with the Indonesian Parliament took place since April 2025.He said the atmosphere described at that time was the potential for global currency weakening.
However, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani reminded an unexpected change in the attitude of US President Donald Trump.
“Now President Trump is very often doing unexpected things which then caused his own dollar, not the exchange rate of his opponent’s currency, because various uncertainties in America themselves tend to experience weakening,” he said.
“Means his opponent (US dollar), in this case other currencies become relatively strengthening,” continued Sri Mulyani.
President Prabowo Subianto’s subordinate emphasized that the Ministry of Finance will continue to coordinate with Bank Indonesia (BI) and the House of Representatives Commission XI regarding the exchange rate movement.
Nevertheless, the government will continue to use the range in the 2026 Draft State Budget.
“We use the lowest (Rp. 16,500 per US dollar). Although, if viewed today in the exchange rate situation is still strong, it feels like we expect to weaken, no!”strictly.
“That’s more because technically, yesterday we discussed with the DPR and took the most powerful range,” added Ani.
Ani also emphasized that the exchange rate set by the government in the 2026 Draft State Budget was not as a direction in making policies, but references in calculating state income and expenditure.
Macro assumptions in the 2026 RAPBN:
1. Economic growth: 5.4 percent
2. Inflation: 2.5 percent
3. SBN Interest Rates 10 Years: 6.9 Percent
4. Exchange Rate: IDR 16,500 per US dollar
5. Price of Indonesian Crude Oil (ICP): US $ 70 per barrel
6. Lifting crude oil: 610 thousand barrels per day
7. Natural gas lifting: 984 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day
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