JAKARTA - PT Bursa Efek Indonesia (IDX) has prepared various initiatives as an effort to increase trading liquidity in the Indonesian stock market.
The IDX has prepared a short selling transaction service and a stock liquidity provider (sport liquidity provider) service, both of which are targeted to launch as early as the third quarter of 2025.
IDX Development Director Jeffrey Hendrik said the IDX has set as many as 411 stocks that can be selected by members of the liquid provider (AB) exchange, of which 13 AB are currently in the process of becoming AB liquidity providers.
The IDX targets to launch a liquidity provider of shares in the third quarter of 2025, as disclosed in a press conference after the 2025 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGMS).
"As an incentive to AB liquidity providers, you can choose additional LQ45 shares and other stocks with a total of 200 shares. So, a total of more than 600 stocks can be liquided providers," said Jeffrey, quoted by Antara, Thursday, June 26.
Regarding short selling transactions, IDX Director of Trade and Member Regulation Irvan Susandy said the fastest short selling transaction will be launched on September 26, 2025, by first looking at market conditions.
At least on September 26, 2025, we will start trading with short selling, or maybe later because we saw market conditions at that time. If the conditions are not vulnerable, we may discuss again with the OJK regarding the opening of short selling trading," said Irvan.
Not only the two initiatives, IDX President Director Iman Rachman revealed, various IDX strategies to increase trade liquidity in the Indonesian capital market.
He said the IDX would cooperate with stakeholders to attract lighthouse companies to hold Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the Indonesian capital market.
"We are of course working with stakeholders as well as companies, so that more and more companies are lighthouses," said Iman.
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The IDX has introduced a new derivative product, Single Stock Futures (SSF) at the end of 2024, which currently has five LQ45 index members who are constituents underlying.
Previously, the IDX also had derivative products, namely Structured Warning (Structed Wargan).
"We will increase the number of other companies for Single Stock Futures (SSF). For Structured Warning, the current side is called, we have added put. So call and put," said Iman.
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