JAKARTA: Indonesia’s top priority is to halt a widening current account deficit even if does mean deliberately slowing South-East Asia’s largest economy, the finance minister said.
The former emerging market star has looked one of the most vulnerable to expected tapering in US monetary stimulus and a sharp rise in its current account deficit in the second quarter helped sap investor enthusiasm, hitting the rupiah harder than any other currency in Asia.
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