Concerns remain about India's rupee, which fell to a record low of 68.845 per dollar in August, and the
rupiah, he said.
The
rupiah, one of Asia's worst performing currencies in the past year, was already under pressure owing to concern about Indonesia's widening current account deficit, largely blamed on huge fuel subsidies.
I'll buy you a beer for 100
rupiah, and one for my government.
"The threat to the economy is still on the exchange rate of the
rupiah, partly due to a weak current account," said Eric Alexander Sugandi, economist in Jakarta for Standard Chartered.
The shares were priced at a discount of 6 percent to Wednesday's close, after having been marketed in a range of 6,100 to 6,300
rupiah each.
Foreigns have bought a record amount of Indonesian bonds this year, drawn by the country's robust economic growth, hopes of a credit upgrade and expectations that its
rupiah currency will continue to appreciate.
Hundreds of advertisements have appeared on Indonesian personal advertising websites offering kidneys for as little as 50 million
rupiah ($5,300) each.
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''The government decided to lower the price of premium gasoline by 500
rupiah (about $0.05) from 6,000
rupiah per liter to 5,500
rupiah per liter,'' Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told a news conference following a Cabinet meeting.
A business-man sparked a scramble for cash when he dropped 100 million
rupiah ($10,700) in banknotes from an aircraft yesterday to promote a book he has written.
The Indonesian government is setting aside a fund of 13 trillion
rupiah ($1.4 billion) and nearly 500,000 hectares of land for the development of the country's fledgling biofuel industry.