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INSANE: Indonesia seeks to reduce dollar reliance | Rare Historical Photos

An employee counts Indonesian rupiah banknotes at a currency exchange in Jakarta. (Reuters File Photo)

Indonesia’s central bank is seeking to reduce the country’s reliance on the US dollar, with plans to allow domestic transactions of non-deliverable forward contracts (NDFs) in other currencies and to strike more agreements on local-currency settlement.

Bank Indonesia could offer non-US-dollar-denominated domestic NDFs next year, Edi Susianto, executive director for monetary management, said in interview on Thursday.

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