The Role of Economic and Monetary Statistics Department at Bank Indonesia Ending Fadjar Economic and Statistics Department, Bank Indonesia Jl. M.H. Thamrin 2 B Building !7th fl. Jakarta, Indonesia
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[email protected] 1. General The Economic and Monetary Statistics Department (EMS) is one of 22 departments in Bank Indonesia as a central bank which has main tasks in (1) managing, and (2) developing the monetary and economic statistics. The term of “managing” has broad meanings, such as collecting, maintaining, reporting, and also disseminating the existing data or the information. The other task “developing” also has some meanings, as searching and creating some new information to improve the statistics itself or to support other departments in analyzing some issues. The coverage of the data which have been managed consist of monetary, external and real sector data and therefore the EMS organization has four main divisions; monetary statistics division, balance of payment statistics division, real sector and government finance division, as well as Economic and Monetary Data and Information Processing Division. The other supporting division is administration division which help another division in daily administrative works. 2. Data gathering The commercial banks’ financial statements are the most important source in constituting the money supply. This information is sent to Bank Indonesia by monthly on-line commercial bank reporting system during the first week after the reference month. The number of commercial bank offices involved in the system are 2500 offices nation wide.