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Indonesia

Financial Reporting Framework in Indonesia

The standard-setting body in Indonesia is the Financial Accounting Standards Board (Dewan Standar Akuntansi Keuangan or DSAK) under the Indonesian Institute of Accountants (Ikatan Akuntan Indonesia or IAI). Under Indonesian law, both public and private companies must comply with accounting standards issued by the DSAK-IAI.

Indonesia's approach to IFRS adoption is to maintain its national GAAP (Indonesian Financial Accounting Standards, IFAS) and converge it gradually with IFRSs as much as possible.  Currently there is no plan (and consequently no timetable) for a full adoption of IFRSs.

Indonesia is striving to minimise the significant differences between IFRSs and IFASs gradually.  Since 2012, the local standards applied in Indonesia are based on those IFRSs that were effective at 1 January 2009. However, some modifications were made. Indonesia will continue the convergence process by considering recent amendments, newer standards (eg IFRSs 9 to 13), and IFRS Exposure Drafts.

Indonesia will also consider results from the implementation of the first wave of standards resulting from the convergence process before new standards are developed. The jurisdiction will also provide for transition periods of three to four years for new standards, however, Indonesia is striving at the same time to keep the gaps between the effective dates of new IFRSs and new IFASs that are based on them as short as possible.

Domestic listed companies do not have the option to fully comply with IFRS.

 

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  • Mar 18, 2013

  • Hans Hoogervorst, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), recently spoke at an international seminar on “IFRS Dynamics 2013 and Beyond: Impact to Indonesia” organised by the Indonesian Institute of Accountants (Ikatan Akuntan Indonesia, IAI). He encouraged Indonesia that currently follows a gradual convergence process to fully embrace IFRSs.

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  • Feb 13, 2013

  • Deloitte (DTTL) and the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) today announced the Deloitte IAAER Scholarship Programme, naming five associate professors from Brazil, Indonesia, Poland, Romania and South Africa as the programme’s inaugural scholars.

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  • Jan 17, 2013

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  • Emerging Economies Group meeting focuses on common control transactions

  • Dec 17, 2012

  • The IASB has publicly released a communiqué from a meeting of the Emerging Economies Group (EEG) held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 4-5 December 2012. The main topic discussed at the meeting was transactions under common control, and the meeting also included brief discussions on hybrid financial instruments and impairment of financial assets.

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  • Dec 13, 2012

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  • Emerging Economies Group established

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  • On 26 July 2011, the Emerging Economies Group (EEG) of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) was established in Beijing. EEG founding members are all emerging economies from the G20 and Malaysia.

  • Private sector task force interim report to G-20

  • Jul 19, 2011

  • The Private Sector Task Force of Regulated Professions and Industries has published an interim report, Regulatory Convergence in Financial Professions and Industries, to the deputies of the G-20. The report focuses on the private sector's point of view in regards to global regulatory convergence.

  • A Driving Wind for IFRS from Asia-Oceania

  • Jun 08, 2011

  • The Asian-Oceanian Standard-Setters Group (AOSSG) has published today "A Vision Paper of the Asian-Oceanian Standard-Setters Group 2011 — A Driving Wind for IFRS from Asia-Oceania".

  • G20 finance ministers will watch convergence efforts

  • Apr 16, 2011

  • The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors met in Washington DC on 14-15 April 2011. They agreed, among other things, to closely watch the progress of the IASB and FASB's convergence efforts.

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