Cadangan devisa jelas berkurang karena kita memerlukan itu untuk intervensi serta untuk menjaga stabilitas nilai tukar rupiah dan juga untuk pembayaran utang, kata Aslim usai rapat kerja Komisi XI DPR dengan Menteri Keuangan membahas RAPBN 2008 di Jakarta, Senin.
The amount of our foreign exchange reserves obviously dropped as we needed part of it to intervene in the money market to maintain the rupiah's exchange rate as well as to repay debts, Deputy Bank Indonesia Governor Aslim Tajudin said following a meeting with the House of Representatives DPR Commission XI on finance, banking industry and non-bank financial institutions here Monday.