While Indonesian President Joko Widodo muses that winter may be coming for the world economy and currency markets, his central banker is hoping for an early thaw.
With plenty of foreign exchange reserves to protect the rupiah and promises from his counterpart at the United States Federal Reserve to go slow with rate hikes, Mr Perry Warjiyo, the governor of Bank Indonesia (BI), is optimistic that - any day now - the rupiah will stop its free fall against the US dollar.
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