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View all search resultsIncoming Bank Indonesia (BI) deputy governor Thomas “Tommy” Djiwandono has suggested ending the so-called burden-sharing scheme between the government and the central bank but wants to harmonize fiscal and monetary policies in other ways to push economic growth.
While the burden sharing scheme was an apt instrument during the COVID-19 pandemic, it now risks becoming a fiscal dominance policy, blurring the line between fiscal and monetary policy, accelerating depreciation, eroding market trust and undermining the central bank's independence.
The central bank has announced a continuation of its burden-sharing scheme with the government and has purchased trillions of rupiah worth of government bonds this year, but an economist questions the legal basis for continuing a policy initially intended as a crisis response.
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