JAKARTA - Foreign capital inflows from January to February 27, 2025 (year to date/ytd) amounted to IDR 5.06 trillion. Meanwhile, Indonesia's CDS level rose 4.79 basis points (bps) in a week.

Ramdan Denny Prakoso, Executive Director of the Communication Department of Bank Indonesia (BI) explained that the outflow of foreign capital from the capital market was IDR15.47 trillion (ytd). In the same period, foreign capital inflows totaled IDR20.53 trillion, consisting of Government Securities (SBN) IDR12.86 trillion and Bank Indonesia Rupiah Securities (SRBI) IDR7.67 trillion.

“Thus, it can be said that there was an inflow of IDR 5.06 trillion. Indeed, the outflows were more from the stock exchange,” he told IDNFinancials.com in Jakarta, Monday (3/3).

Foreign capital transactions as of (24-27/2) were recorded at IDR10.33 trillion, consisting of selling in the stock market of IDR7.31 trillion, in SBN of IDR1.24 trillion, and in SRBI of IDR1.78 trillion. Meanwhile, the credit default swaps (CDS) premium was recorded at 75.13 bps on (27/2), up from 70.34 bps as of (21/2).

Previously, data from PT BRI Danareksa Sekuritas conveyed that foreign capital outflows amounted to IDR 19.7 trillion (ytd) and IDR 15.9 trillion (month to date / mtd). Throughout last week, foreign capital outflow was recorded at IDR 7.6 trillion.

The largest foreign capital outflows were in five issuers, namely, PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BBCA), PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk (BMRI), PT Merdeka Copper Gold Tbk (MDKA), PT Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BBNI), and PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk (UNVR).(MH/LK/LM)