Indonesia’s Central Bank is on track to issue its own digital currency for banks to use, while considering ways to ensure it would be exchangeable across borders. Bank Indonesia will release the conceptual design of digital rupiah by the end of this year, governor Perry Warjiyo said in a briefing on Thursday: “The principle of digital rupiah will be the same as paper money which is to be the only legal currency for digital transactions in Indonesia.”
The Central Bank has been studying the digital rupiah since last year to get ahead of the global adoption of cryptocurrency as a payment method. Other monetary authorities are looking into blockchain technology to improve transfers and settlements, with the central banks of the Philippines and Australia also considering such wholesale digital currencies.
Source: bnnbloomberg.ca