
Indonesia’s finance minister said domestic sentiment and information can shape market expectations and contribute to rupiah pressure, alongside global factors. He argued that the currency’s weakness did not necessarily reflect deteriorating economic fundamentals and said improving expectations would be important.
Negative market expectations can sustain currency weakness even without a comparable deterioration in fundamentals, increasing the local-currency cost of imported feed ingredients. The article offers no new policy measure or commodity-flow change.
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