JAKARTA, March 14 (Reuters) - Indonesia will frontload
its bond issuance this year, predicting that global interest
rates would continue to rise and stay high in the second half of
2023, its finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told a news
conference on Tuesday.
The country raised 177.7 trillion rupiah ($11.55 billion)
worth of bonds in the first two months of this year, even though
it posted a budget surplus of 131.8 trillion rupiah in the same
period, she said.
($1 = 15,380.0000 rupiah)
(Reporting by Gayatri Suroyo and Stefanno Sulaiman, Editing by
Louise Heavens)
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