Foreign Funds Entered Capai IDR 4.15 Trillion In The Last Week Of April 2025

JAKARTA Bank Indonesia (BI) recorded that foreign capital inflows into the domestic financial market reached IDR 4.15 trillion during the period from 28 to 30 April 2025. The majority of foreign funds entered through the Bank Indonesia Securities (SRBI) and Government Securities (SBN) instruments.

Executive Director of the BI Communications Department, Ramdan Denny Prakoso, explained that the foreign funds that came in consisted of a net purchase of Rp0.22 trillion in the SBN market and Rp3.95 trillion in SRBI. Meanwhile, in the stock market, foreign investors were recorded to have sold net amounting to Rp0.01 trillion.

"The total capital inflow during that period reached Rp4.15 trillion, with the dominant composition coming from SRBI," said Ramdan in his official statement, quoted on Sunday, May 4.

However, cumulatively throughout 2025 to April 30, non-residents still recorded outflows or *capital outflow* in several instruments. Foreign investors recorded net sales of IDR 49.56 trillion in the stock market and IDR 12.05 trillion in SRBI, while they recorded net purchases of IDR 23.01 trillion in the SBN market.

Along with these developments, Indonesia's Credit Default Swap (CDS) premium tenor 5 years as of May 1, 2025 was recorded at 97.18 basis points (bps), an increase compared to the position on April 25, 2025, which was 93.98 bps.

In the bond market, the yield of the 10-year SBN tenor fell to a level of 6.86 percent on Friday morning, May 2, 2025. The decline was also recorded at the close of the previous trade, Wednesday, April 30, with yields dropping to 6.85 percent.

Meanwhile, the rupiah exchange rate opened at the level of IDR 16,600 per US dollar on Friday morning, May 2, 2025, slightly weakened from the previous closing position at the level of IDR 16,595 per US dollar. On the other hand, the US dollar index strengthened to the level of 100.25.

For the global market, the yield of US government bonds (US Treasury) tenor 10 years on April 30, 2025, also dropped to 4,218 percent.