INDONESIA D AILY ECONOMIC UPDAT E Friday, 9 August 2019 ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS • Indonesia’s current account deficit widened to 3 percent of GDP in Q2 from 2.6 percent of GDP in Q1. • A number of state-owned banks have begun to lower their interest rates in response to Bank Indonesia’s policy rate reduction in July. DAILY INDONESIAN FINANCIAL INDICATORS Change Change or total Date of since Unit Latest latest last In last In last Year-to- value value trading week* month* date day Stock market Jakarta Composite Index 6,282 09 Aug 0.1% -0.9% -2.0% 1.4% Net purchases by 0.06 09 Aug IDR, tn -- -3.6 -5.5 64.2 foreign investors Exchange rate: IDR/USD Bank Indonesia 14,195 09 Aug -0.3% -0.1% 0.3% -2.0% Bloomberg 14,194 09 Aug -0.1% 0.1% 0.4% -1.4% Government bonds Yield: 1 year IDR bond 6.3% 09 Aug bps -2.3 -23 -3 -55 Yield: 5-year IDR bond 6.9% 09 Aug bps -4.5 -8 5 -107 Yield: 10-year IDR bond 7.5% 09 Aug bps -4.1 -13 10 -64 Foreign holdings of IDR bonds 1,007 08 Aug IDR, tn -- -12 5 113 Indonesia USD bonds strip spread 192 08 Aug bps -4.8 5 15 -45 Asia USD bonds strip spread 190 08 Aug bps -2.9 4 18 -27 Indonesia sovereign CDS: 5yr, mid- 96 08 Aug bps 0.0 13 7 -41 price Corporate bonds Indonesia USD bonds strip spread 322 08 Aug bps -5.4 25 47 -91 Interest rates IndONIA 5.6% 08 Aug bps 1.4 -1.6 -29.2 -31.0 IndONIA spread relative -15.8 08 Aug bps 1.4 -1.6 -4.2 -6.0 to policy rate International reserves 125.9 31 Jul USD, bn -- -- 2.1 5.2 * One week and month prior to latest observation SOURCES Data are taken from the following: the latest Jakarta Stock Exchange and Indonesian government IDR bond yield data are taken from the Indonesian Stock Exchange (www.idx.co.id). BI IndONIA and IDR mid exchange rates from Bank Indonesia (www.bi.go.id), after 5 pm each day. BI reports international reserves data directly. The Directorate General of Debt Management at the Indonesian Ministry of Finance provides data on the foreign holdings of IDR government bonds (www.djppr.kemenkeu.go.id). The CDS premium on 5- year Indonesian government USD bonds and Indonesian corporate bond spreads are sourced from JPMorgan.