Hope for Miranda

Hope for Miranda

Miranda Swaray Goeltom will finally be back at the Bank of Indonesia (BI). She has been chosen by House Commission IX to be the senior deputy of the governor of BI.

Miranda has a vision to speed up change and reformation in the central bank. Among her plans is to improve the quality of human resources, above that of those in the market. In addition to that, she has also her vision on international networking.

She believes that control over rupiah will be easier if the central bank officials are close to decision makers in central banks in other countries and foreign banks. And she admits that she has such relations.

Miranda will be back at the bank when the latter is being criticized for being late in taking measures to anticipate the negative sentiment of the market due to the U.S. Fed's plan to increase its interest rate.

Against such a background, the election of Miranda, who is both skilled and experienced, is expected to strengthen the central bank's executives and to stabilize the rupiah.

However, above all Miranda must shows her integrity to ensure she has no conflict of interest, as she is also a commissioner of a foreign bank and a consultant of several financial institutions. She must declare this openly.

Because, it would be dangerous to have skill and experience without integrity. -- Media Indonesia, Jakarta