Take Indonesia for example, which has been hardest hit by the crisis. At the end of last June, the Indonesian rupiah was trading at 2400 to the US dollar. As of the middle of this February, it was trading at more than 9000 to one, a fall of nearly 75 %. This means that the purchasing power of the currency is only one-quarter of what it was.
以受害最嚴重的印尼為例，去年六月底，一美元可以兌換二千四百元印尼盾，這個數字在今年二月中旬已貶破九千，貶值幅度高達百分之七十五（指其貨幣購買力跌掉四分之三，只剩下原來的四分之一）。