IN RECENT weeks signs have appeared in the poky arrivals hall at Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, exhorting visitors to shun the dollar in the name of national sovereignty. "Use rupiah for all transactions in Indonesia!" travellers are told, as they wait, interminably, at the luggage carousels. That reflects old suspicions of foreign interference in the economy, South-East Asia's largest, coupled with newer concerns about the currency's vulnerability to capital flight.
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