JAKARTA: Indonesia’s central bank is ready to further finance the government’s budget deficit and “share the burden” of fighting the coronavirus outbreak, the bank’s chief told an online seminar on Saturday.
Bank Indonesia (BI) governor Perry Warjiyo said he and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati had agreed to accelerate budget deficit financing and for the central bank “to ease the government’s burden” of responding to the outbreak.
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