With Bank Indonesia (BI) having announced on Friday that it is planning to replace its main policy rate because the current rate has little influence over commercial banks’ lending rates, a fourth rate cut in as many months at today’s meeting never looked likely. We expect the reference rate will remain on hold at 6.75% until August, when the new seven-day reverse repo will become the main policy rate.
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