JAKARTA - PT Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) spoke out regarding the implementation of a temporary trading freeze (trading halt) on the Indonesia Stock Exchange.
The policy was enacted following a 8 percent decline in the Composite Stock Price Index (IHSG) to 8,261.7 on Wednesday, January 28.
The Company Secretary of the IDX, Kautsar Primadi Nurahmad, said that on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, the IDX had imposed a temporary freeze on the trading system at 13.43.13 Jakarta Automated Trading System (JATS) time.
"Today, Wednesday, January 28, 2026, a temporary freezing of trading (trading halt) of the trading system at PT Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) at 13:43:13 Jakarta Automated Trading System (JATS) time, trading will resume at 14:13:13 JATS time without any changes to the trading schedule," he said.
He explained that this step was taken in response to the decline in the JCI which had reached the threshold of 8 percent.
The implementation of this trading halt is part of the efforts of the IDX to maintain that stock trading activities continue to take place regularly, reasonably, and efficiently, as regulated in the Exchange Regulation Number II-A concerning Equity-Based Securities Trading and the IDX Board of Directors Decree Number Kep-00002/BEI/04-2025.
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