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Archive: 6 April 2009

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Indonesian Rupiah May Gain by Year-End as Polls Buoy Investment

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s central bank Governor Boediono said the rupiah will strengthen by year-end as investors return to the world’s third-largest democracy after peaceful elections.The rupiah has declined 15.

Only 1.9m Out of 12.7m Taxpayers Filed Their Returns

Despite all its efforts to encourage more people to pay taxes, the government only managed to get 1.9 million of the country’s 12.7 million registered taxpayers to file their tax returns as of the March 31 deadline, according to initial data from the Ministry of Finance’s Directorate General of...

Exports slide and economy gets worse

Aditya Suharmoko, The Jakarta Post, JAKARTA Exports have continued falling, by another third in February, signaling a further drop in forecast growth, says the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).Exports in February contracted by 32.