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A Cabinet Secretariat commentary discusses pressure on the rupiah from a strengthening US dollar, linked to Fed quantitative easing tapering, the US-China trade war and the Turkish and Argentine crises. It notes expectations of foreign capital outflows from Indonesian markets and the importance of currency hedging.
Expected capital outflows and a weaker rupiah increase Indonesian import costs for feed inputs, although the commentary is a policy perspective rather than a new market event.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.