Jurnal Ekonomi dan Kebijakan Publik Indonesia
Vol 9, No 1 (2022): MEI 2022

THE EFFECT OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES, EXCHANGE RATES AND LIBOR INTEREST RATE ON FOREIGN DEBT

Kasmianti Kasmianti (Unknown)
Fitriyani Fitriyani (Unknown)
Miksalmina Miksalmina (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 May 2022

Abstract

Foreign debt is one of the alternative incomes or sources of domestic capital financing to cover the lack of development capital. The purpose of this research is to assess the short-term and long-term impact of foreign exchange reserves, the rupiah exchange rate, and foreign interest rate on Indonesia's foreign debt from 2008 to 2020. The results of VECM model show that foreign exchange reserves have a positive and significant effect on foreign debt in the short term, but a negative and significant effect on foreign debt in the long run. The rupiah exchange rate has no influence on foreign debt in the near term, but it has a negative and considerable effect in the long term. Then, in the short and long run, foreign interest rate has no influence on Indonesia's foreign debt. Hence, the government is expected to take appropriate policy steps to lessen its reliance on foreign debt. One of them is to optimize the use of foreign debt for productive purposes, so increasing foreign exchange reserves while decreasing the amount of debt borrowed.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EKaPI

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Kebijakan Publik Indonesia (EKaPI) (ISSN 2442-7411, E-ISSN 2549-8355) is an open access academic journal published by Development Economics Department, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It presents the peer-reviewed and open access work/research. It is published two ...