{"id":440663,"date":"2026-05-09T17:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440663\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:51:28","slug":"rupiah-rout-stoking-fears-of-a-1997-repeat-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440663\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupiah rout stoking fears of a 1997 repeat in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2013 Indonesian officials are working overtime to dismiss any suggestion that Jakarta is catching a whiff of 1997 in the air. But the force of their interventions to steady the rupiah tells a very different story.<\/p>\n<p>Bank Indonesia is\u00a0hemorrhaging currency reserves to put a floor under the rupiah, which recently fell to an all-time low. This includes levels seen\u00a0during the Asian financial crisis 29 years ago, as the fallout from the Iran war\u00a0slams global markets.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Indonesia\u2019s move to impose capital controls suggests Southeast Asia\u2019s biggest economy is going to the mattresses against currency speculators \u2014 in ways that could backfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2013 Indonesian officials are working overtime to dismiss any suggestion that Jakarta is catching a whiff of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[157327,26444,191928,72,60538,113,61,1665,191929,25016,60,44377,7096,106261,191930],"class_list":["post-440663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-1997-98-asian-financial-crisis","tag-at","tag-atplus","tag-business","tag-danantara","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-indonesia","tag-indonesia-capital-controls","tag-indonesia-economy","tag-ireland","tag-msci","tag-prabowo-subianto","tag-rupiah-depreciation","tag-rupiah-record-low"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}