www.bisnis.com - JAKARTA:
Bank Indonesia is conducting a study to create a kind of instrument
placement of foreign currency deposits for Islamic banking.
Difi A. Johansyah,
Director of Public Relations Group of Bank Indonesia (BI), said the
central bank's Monetary Management Department is conducting studies to
instrument placement deposits (term deposits) of foreign exchange which
currently only exist in the conventional, can be adopted by Islamic
banks.
Along
with the move, the central bank is also being carried out studies of
the regulation of Islamic monetary operations are expected in the not
too old to do the adjustment.
"So
the next target of Islamic banks can also avail of foreign currency
deposit scheme similar term," he told Business Today Sunday, June 10,
2012. (source)