Direktur Retail Banking PT Bank Mega Tbk, Kostaman Thayib di Jakarta, mengatakan, minat pelaku pasar untuk membeli dolar AS pada sore hari agak berkurang sehingga penurunan rupiah relatif lebih kecil dibanding pagi hari.
Investors were less interested in buying up the dollar as street rallies against a government plan to raise fuel prices showed signs of abating, leading to a slight fall in the rupiah's exchange rate against the greenback, Kostaman Thayib, retail banking director of PT Bank Mega Tbk, said on Thursday.