The development of the inflation targeting system was by no means smooth sailing.
Conflicts arose after the Thaksin government came into power in early 2001.
The government wanted to see a stronger and more stable baht and pressured the BOT to increase interest rates.
When the BOT refused to do so, the government sacked the then governor Chatumongkol Sonakul in May 2001 and replaced him with Pridiyathorn Devakula, who then shortly hiked the 14-day repurchase rate by 1% point.
This created a lot of confusion at the time and it was not clear whether the inflation targeting framework would remain or if it was going back to something like an exchange rate targeting framework.
However, the BOT officially stuck to the inflation targeting framework and after a while the market regained confidence in the system and the system remains in operation to the present.