USD/IDR: Upside risks with BI liquidity tools – OCBC

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OCBC strategists Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong highlight USD/IDR grinding higher toward 17,000 on firm Dollar, risk-off sentiment and Oil-related terms-of-trade pressures. Bank Indonesia’s (BI) new FX instruments (SVBI, SUVBI) are seen as helping to smooth volatility and USD liquidity but not changing the underlying FX anchor. External factors and Iran-related risks are expected to keep IDR under pressure near term, with resistance around 17,100.

Indonesia Rupiah pressured by external backdrop

"USD/IDR continued to edge modestly higher toward the 17,000 level, reflecting a still-challenging external backdrop marked by firm USD, risk-off sentiment and oil-related terms-of-trade pressures."

"Bank Indonesia’s (BI) introduction of FX-denominated instruments such as SVBI and SUVBI should help mitigate volatility at the margin."

"While these tools do not alter the underlying FX rate anchor, the measures may improve how USD liquidity is intermediated onshore."

"By allowing exporters and banks to hold and recycle USD domestically, the need to source USD aggressively via the spot market is reduced, thereby partially help to ease pressures and limit the risk of disorderly overshoots in USD/IDR."

"That said, external factors remain the dominant driver, and weaker risk sentiment alongside elevated oil prices amid risks of a more protracted Iran conflict are likely to continue weighing on the IDR, alongside other Asian FX."

(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)

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