Earlier in May, Indonesia’s central bank had announced plans to launch a digital currency. Now, the central bank is pushing for a digital form of the rupiah to ‘fight’ private cryptocurrencies, reported Bloomberg.
Juda Agung, assistant governor at the central bank, noted in the Indonesian Parliament,
“A CBDC would be one of the tools to fight crypto.”
He also added that the assumption is that people would find CBDCs more credible than crypto, stating,
“CBDC would be part of an effort to address the
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