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Indonesian Finance Minister Denies Resignation Rumors After Market Plunge

Last updated: 2025/03/19 at 2:45 PM
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Indonesia’s finance minister has been compelled to disclaim rumors of her imminent resignation, after the nation’s inventory alternate yesterday fell to its lowest level in years.

Talking at what Reuters described as a “hurriedly known as press convention” yesterday afternoon, Sri Mulyani Indrawati mentioned that she remained in her publish and accountable for Southeast Asia’s largest financial system.

“We’re right here, we’re accountable,” she mentioned, in response to Reuters’ report. “I cannot step down.”

Additionally yesterday, Hariqo Wibawa Satria, a spokesperson for the Presidential Communications Workplace (PCO) mentioned that the rumors of Sri Mulyani’s resignation were false. “We wish to emphasize that the data circulating on social media relating to Ms. Sri Mulyani’s resignation as minister of finance is unfaithful or a hoax,” Hariqo mentioned in a video on the PCO’s official Instagram account.

The press convention got here after the benchmark Jakarta Inventory Alternate Composite Index yesterday plunged more than 7 percent from the day prior to this’s shut, forcing the bourse to halt buying and selling for the primary time since 2020. The rupiah concurrently slid to a two-week low towards the greenback.

In accordance with market analysts, a variety of things accounted for the sudden drop within the index, together with weak shopper sentiment and issues over President Prabowo Subianto’s fiscal technique in gentle of his formidable spending plans and the nation’s slumping tax revenues. These fell by 30 p.c within the first two months of 2025, which the Finance Ministry put down to the shifting costs of key commodities equivalent to coal, nickel, and crude oil, in addition to “administrative adjustments to the way in which private earnings tax and value-added tax have been collected.”

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There have additionally been a scarcity of investor confidence in Indonesia’s state-owned firms, which have been positioned below the supervision of the nation’s newly established sovereign wealth fund Danantara Indonesia.

The market panic was additional compounded by rumors that Sri Mulyani had stepped down as finance minister, a place she additionally held below presidents Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

“Rumors concerning the resignation of Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati turned the priority of market gamers. Together with one that’s the focus of the market as a result of up to now her place as finance minister is seen as constructive,” Valdy Kurniawan, an analyst for Phintraco Securities, told Nikkei Asia.

As this analyst recommended, throughout the course of her stints as finance minister below Jokowi and SBY, Sri Mulyani earned worldwide respect as a dependable and conservative steward of the Indonesian financial system. Particularly, she has earned reward for her reforms of the nation’s chaotic taxation system and her position in steering Indonesia by way of the worldwide monetary disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic.

In October, as he was finalizing his cupboard, President Prabowo Subianto determined to reappoint her as finance minister as a gesture of reassurance to worldwide markets, which had develop into unsettled by the brand new chief’s formidable spending ambitions. These included plans to extend the nation’s debt-to-GDP ratio to 50 p.c in pursuit of Prabowo’s objectives of higher self-sufficiency and his goal of 8 p.c annual GDP progress.

Throughout yesterday’s press convention, Sri Mulyani pledged to take care of fiscal self-discipline and that the state funds deficit could be maintained at 2.53 p.c of GDP in 2025, beneath the three p.c authorized ceiling. She additionally mentioned that that the federal government will guarantee transparency within the administration of state-owned companies now that they’ve been transferred to the Danantara funding fund.

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