Opening Of 2022 Stock Trading, Coordinating Minister Airlangga Builds Optimism Of Market Participants

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto tries to build confidence in capital market players to remain optimistic in navigating the 2022 business year.

This assumption is based on a number of economic indicators that tended to be stable throughout the past year.

"We hope that in the future the market will be more optimistic," he said, Monday, January 3.

Airlangga added that a quite proud record of achievement in 2021 was the entry of one of the domestic e-commerce companies to the stock exchange floor through an initial public offering (IPO) mechanism and successfully booked a fairly large valuation.

"Regarding yesterday's digital technology, we were able to launch the IPO of Bukalapak, one of the largest in Asia, amounting to Rp. 21.11 trillion, this needs to be continued," he said.

Furthermore, Airlangga also saw the economic potential of Indonesia's status as President of the G20 this year.

"Then the others are related to the Indonesian Presidency at the G20 which is expected to provide support to the capital market," he said.

Meanwhile, the opening of the first stock trading of the year was also attended by President Joko Widodo, Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani, and Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) Wimboh Santoso.