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- A Dispatch From Jakarta, Twenty-Nine Years Late
Bank Indonesia is about to defend the rupiah with the same tool it reached for in 1997. The tool still works. This time the weather around it is worse.
BY MICHAEL WILSON · OCT 20, 2026 · FINANCIAL SYSTEM LEVERAGE & RISK
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