JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia (BI) conveyed that foreign capital outflows in Indonesia's financial markets from April 2025 to April 21, 2025, amounted to USD 2.8 billion.

Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo said that the release of foreign capital flows from domestic financial instruments was due to the strong impact of global uncertainty after the announcement of US reciprocal rates.

However, Perry said, the latest developments show that the pressure of outflows has begun to decrease, especially on SBN, in line with the good prospects for the Indonesian economy, including maintained external resilience.

"The position of foreign exchange reserves at the end of March 2025 was recorded at 157.1 billion US dollars, equivalent to financing 6.7 months of imports or 6.5 months of imports and payment of government foreign debt, and was above the international adequacy standard of around 3 months of imports," he said at a press conference, Wednesday, April 23.

Meanwhile, foreign capital inflows into domestic financial instruments in the form of portfolio investment from early 2025 to the end of March 2025 recorded net inflows of 1.6 billion US dollars.

Perry added that the trade balance surplus continued in March 2025 at 4.3 billion US dollars, an increase compared to the previous month's surplus of 3.1 billion US dollars.

Therefore, he conveyed that Bank Indonesia predicts that the 2025 NPI will remain well supported by a low current account deficit in the range of a deficit of 0.5 percent to 1.3 percent of GDP and a continuing capital and financial transaction surplus, amid global uncertainty. still high.


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