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The Foods and Beverages Merchants in Jabodetabek Lost Their Income Until Rp 200
billion

Bad weather that hit several regions in Indonesia is large enough to impact the food and
beverage industry in this country. For only the Jabodetabek area, the floods predicted
suppress the turnover to 25 percent.

Chairman of the Food and Beverage Association of Indonesia (Gapmmi) Adhi Lukman
explained, a decrease of revenue is due to the difficulty of the distribution of products from
the factory to the market because of the flooding block. Thus, it spreads on the decline in
consumption.

As an overall result, Adhi estimated the food and beverage industry in Jabodetabek lost the
income until Rp 200 billion per day. “In the normal situation, the income in each day for this
region reached USD 800 billion,” he said on Tuesday (01/21/2014).

It is not only the distribution to the consumer, food and beverage manufacturers must also
bear the losses due to the distribution of raw materials from the another region which also
faltered.

For example, the transportation of fresh fruit and meat from Central Java, currently takes up
to four days. Though, it usually takes only a half day. “Whereas within five days, the fresh
raw materials will rot in about 50 percent” he said.

It hasn’t counted yet the losses because the factory could not be operated due to workers who
could not get in because of flooding, or because there is no electricity supply due to outages
by PLN in some areas.

Despite the losses is in sight, according to Adhi, manufacturers of foods and beverages will
not raise their selling prices. Because this problem is only temporary.
This Year, Rupiah Is Predicted Will Be Number 1 In Asia

Some analysts of the most accurate version of Bloomberg predicted that Rupiah will rise
from the worst position to be the number one among other Asian currencies this year.

According to Lloyds Banking Group Plc, the rupiah will strengthen by 6.8 percent in 2014 to
a level of 11,400 per U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, Societe Generale SA will see the rupiah was at
10,250 at the end of next year. In comparison, the median of 23 analysts surveyed by
Bloomberg predict the rupiah will be at the level of 12,200 per U.S. dollar.

Among the 10 countries of Asia, only China can beat Indonesian growth.

There are several factors that will allegedly keep the Rupiah. One of them, a steady growth of
the Indonesian economy and the reduce of trade deficit. Two factors are again the main
attraction for foreign funds to re-invest in Indonesia.

“We predict the current value of the rupiah is below as it should be (undervalued) considered
the dynamic growth in Indonesia,” said Jeavon Lolay, Global Research Director of Lloyds .

He added that the Indonesian economy will move in line with the positive growth in the
global economy, which in turn will help to restore the level of exports in the next second
quarter.

As a record, Indonesia’s currency has gained 0.7 percent this month to 12,085 per U.S. dollar.
This is the best reinforcement among 11 Asian most frequently currencies traded.