The central bank of Indonesia (Bank Indonesia) stated that the country’s foreign exchange reserves the end of June 2015 can adequately cover seven months of imports or 6.8 months of imports and servicing of public external debt repayment. This is well above current international standards of reserves adequacy at three months of imports.

At the end of 2014, Indonesia’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves stood at USD $111.9 billion.

Indonesia's Foreign Exchange Reserves 2008-2015:

    2008   2009
  2010   2011   2012   2013   2014   2015²
Foreign Exchange
Reserves¹
  51.6   66.1   96.2  110.1  112.8    99.4   111.9   108.0

¹ in billion US dollar
² at end-June 2015
Source: Bank Indonesia

Indonesian Rupiah versus US Dollar (JISDOR):

| Source: Bank Indonesia

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