{"id":36680,"date":"2013-03-07T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T10:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=36680"},"modified":"2013-03-07T05:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T10:05:29","slug":"indonesia-holds-rate-steady-economy-on-track-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/03\/07\/indonesia-holds-rate-steady-economy-on-track-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia holds rate steady, economy on track in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; Indonesia&#8217;s central bank held its BI rate steady at 5.75 percent, as expected, saying this is consistent with the bank&#8217;s inflation target for this year and 2014, and the economy will expand as forecast in the first quarter.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;Bank Indonesia (BI), which cut its rate by 25 basis points last year, said first quarter economic growth will reach a forecast 6.2 percent, mainly supported by strong domestic demand based on improved consumer confidence and purchasing power.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; However, there are signs of continued moderation in investment activity that began in the fourth quarter, especially in non-construction.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;On the other hand, exports to many major trading partners, particularly China, the United States and India, is expected to improve,&#8221; the BI said in a statement.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; For 2013, the central bank said it expects growth in the lower end of a 6.3-6.8 percent range.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Indonesia&#8217;s headline inflation rate rose to 5.31 percent in February from January&#8217;s 4.6 percent with core inflation at 4.29 percent. The central bank targets inflation of 4.5 percent, plus\/minus 1 percentage point.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Indonesia&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product contracted by 1.45 percent in the fourth quarter from the third for annual growth of 6.1 percent, slightly down from the third quarter&#8217;s rate of 6.17 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\">www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; Indonesia&#8217;s central bank held its BI rate steady at 5.75 percent, as expected, saying this is consistent with the bank&#8217;s inflation target for this year and 2014, and the economy will expand as forecast in the first quarter.&nbsp; &nbsp;Bank Indonesia (BI), which cut its rate by 25 basis points last year, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/03\/07\/indonesia-holds-rate-steady-economy-on-track-in-q1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indonesia holds rate steady, economy on track in Q1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}