Indonesia launches 5-yr, 10-yr, 30-yr dollar bonds
JAKARTA —Indonesia launched five-year, 10-year and 30-year U.S. dollar senior unsecured bonds on Wednesday, with initial price guidance in the 4.9 percent, 5.05 percent, 5.45 percent areas, respectively, according to a term sheet.
Fitch Ratings on Wednesday assigned the proposed bonds a ‘BBB’ rating, which is in line with Indonesia’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating that has stable outlook, according to a statement.
S&P Global Ratings also on Wednesday assigned ‘BBB’ long term foreign currency issue credit rating to the bonds, according to a separate statement.
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Moody’s assigned ‘Baa2’ ratings to the dollar denominated bonds, according to a statement by the rating agency on Wednesday.
Indonesia intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the bonds for general purposes, the term sheet that was seen by Reuters showed.
ANZ, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank , Morgan Stanley and UBS are the joint bookrunners, according to the sheet.
BRI Danareksa Sekuritas and Trimegah Sekuritas Indonesia are the co-managers, the sheet showed.
Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, in November raised $2 billion from U.S dollar sukuk or Islamic bonds.
