24 Mar 2025 | News & Feature

TFP W13 2025: Drawing liquidity from a drying well

  • Purchase of government bonds (SBN) by households has accelerated in recent years as demand remains strong and the government leans more into this stable source of liquidity.
  • Frontloaded SBN issuance this year may have constrained household liquidity, and improvement in consumer spending and bank liquidity will depend on disbursement of government spending.
  • Continued decline in household savings means the government may have to look for other sources of liquidity, possibly from corporates.