ECONOMIC UPDATE - GDP - First contraction since 1999

August 06, 2020

Dip in Indonesia economy has just been registered in 2Q20 at its sharpest pace since 1999 where in 1Q99 it grew by -6.13% YoY right after Asian Financial Crisis and political turmoil in 1998.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - Monetary review - Fueling up the growth

July 17, 2020

Bank Indonesia (BI) today delivered its fourth rate cut on benchmark interest rate by 25bps to 4.0%, which is the lowest in two years andaligned with our and consensus expectations.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - Inflation - Deflation kicks in

August 04, 2020

The low era of inflation is associated with current unusual situation where households tend to save more in order to avoid uncertainty in the near future due to the pandemic.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - Externaltrade review - Remarkable trade reversal

July 16, 2020

Better than our and consensus estimates, trade performance in Jun-20 displayed big improvement where exports showed up with the first expansion in last 4 months.

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STRATEGY REPORT - Stay vigilant on risk of correction

July 03, 2020

The JCI dropped by 22.1% to 4,905 in 1H20. We looked at various stocks in JCI that have contributed the most to the decline and have seen selling pressure.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - Inflation - Lowest inflation since 2000, below BI’s target

July 03, 2020

Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recorded low inflation in Jun-20. The biggest contributor of inflation came from food, beverage and tobacco basket. On inflation components, chicken contributed the most as it brought 0.14% to total inflation.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - Monetary review - Third rate cut, one to go

June 19, 2020

BI believes that the economic growth will go up eventually. Thus, in 2021, BI predicts the recovery phase is near and the growth in 2021 will be around 5-6%.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - External trade review - Trade nosedive

June 16, 2020

Looking at the smaller trade deficit compared to 2018 and 2019 and the relaxation of PSBB, the trade performance will be getting better when other countries as our key trade peers recover from Covid-19.

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STRATEGY REPORT - Markets and economy take divergent paths

June 12, 2020

We expect JCI to encounter another selling pressure in 3Q20, as the real extent of economic and corporate earnings impacts of Covid-19 become manifest with the release of 2Q20 earnings and GDP figure starting in July 2020.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - Inflation - Invisible Ramadan effect

June 03, 2020

Inflation in May-20 showed an anomaly compared to prior Ramadan months where the households spending and the inflation itself used to be higher.

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STRATEGY REPORT - Re-opening the economy in a new normal

May 29, 2020

In a bid to revive the stuttering economy, Indonesian officials have planned to economic reopening in stages starting from June with some health protocols remaining in place.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - BoP review - The pandemic drives capital flight

May 20, 2020

As Covid-19 pandemic hits on every sector, it brought significant impact to financial account it swung to a deficit of USD2.93 bn due to the capital flight amid pandemic compared to surplus of USD9.86 bn in 1Q19.

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ECONOMIC UPDATE - Externaltrade review - Depend on (peers) recovery

May 18, 2020

Trade performance in 2018 and 2019 were way worse than Jan-Apr 2020 performance. This could be a signal of 2020 weaker global demand of Indonesia’s export, supported by the lower inflation of OECD member states with lower trend ahead.

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