ANALYSIS THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM AND
MONETARY CRISIS IN INDONESIA
Yori Griselda Salsabila
JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY
Email:
yorigriselda@yahoo.co.id
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to know the history and development of international monetary system, the
potential factor that cause the monetary crisis in 1997, and the impact of the monetary crisis on the
Indonesian economy. The results of this research show that the international monetary system is a
single device policy, institution, practitioner, regulation, mechanism that determines the rate at
which one currency is in exchange for another currency. Changes in the monetary system are
caused by economic turmoil. By studying the historical experience will be able to figure out the
emergence of economic instability and adjustment process of international payments balance. The
monetary crisis that has hit Indonesia since the beginning of July 1997, while it has lasted for
almost two years and has turned into an economic crisis, is the paralysis of economic activity
because more companies are closing and an increasing number of unemployed workers. Indeed,
this crisis is not entirely caused by the monetary crisis, because partly exacerbated by various
national calamities that came in a barrage amid economic difficulties such as rice crop failures in
many places due to the long and worst drought for the last 50 years, pests, massive forest fires in
Kalimantan and riots that hit many cities in mid-May 1998.
Keywords : economic growth, financial crisis, monetary policy, price stability