Bank Indonesia headquarters in Jakarta | |
Headquarters | Jakarta, Indonesia |
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Established | 24 January 1828 1 July 1953 (current form) | (Bank of Java)
Governor | Perry Warjiyo[1] |
Central bank of | Indonesia |
Currency | Indonesian rupiah IDR (ISO 4217) |
Reserves | USD 136.4 billion[2] |
Website | bi |
Bank Indonesia (BI) is the central bank of the Republic of Indonesia. It replaced in 1953 the Bank of Java (Dutch: De Javasche Bank, DJB), which had been created in 1828 to serve the financial needs of the Dutch East Indies.