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DIGITAL RUPIAH CONCEPT EXPECTED BY YEAR END
Indonesia’s monetary authority is advancing with a project to issue a digital version of the national fiat for wholesale transactions. It plans to release the conceptual design of the future digital rupiah by the end of 2022, Governor Perry Warjiyo revealed in a briefing . Quoted by Bloomberg, he elaborated:
The principle of digital rupiah will be the same as paper money which is to be the only legal currency for digital transactions in Indonesia.
Bank Indonesia has been studying the possible launch of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) since last year. Its main intention is to get ahead of the global adoption of cryptocurrency as a payment method, the report notes.
The monetary authorities of other nations in the region have also been looking into implementing blockchain technology to improve transfers and settlements, including the central banks of the Philippines and Australia, which are considering wholesale digital currencies as well.
Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Republic of South Africa announced trials of cross-border payments with CBDCs last fall. The central banks of these countries said the goal of their cooperation was to develop shared platforms for international transactions using different state-issued digital currencies.
Wellian Wiranto, economist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp in Singapore, explained that this will be done to avoid potential disintermediation of banks, especially in times of crisis, or the risk that households would choose to bank directly with the “risk-free” central bank rather than commercial banks.
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