JAKARTA - The development of the Indonesian capital market at the end of this year is slowly moving towards a very positive path. Trading activities on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) have actually experienced rapid growth amid the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Director of the Indonesia Stock Exchange, Inarno Djajadi, said that the rapid trading activity during the pandemic has also placed the IDX as the highest exchange among the ASEAN region exchanges. Especially in facilitating various companies to raise funds through the capital market.

"The growth in going public activities is also followed by the growth trend in the number of capital market investors, despite the pandemic situation the number of investors continues to grow to 3.87 million investors or an increase of 56 percent throughout 2020," he said, at the IDX Trading Closing Ceremony 2020 in Virtual, Wednesday. , December 30th.

In addition, said Inarno, there was an increase in transactions that reached 94,000 investors per day, an increase of 73 percent over the previous year.

Not only that, according to his explanation, there has also been an increase in transaction activity among retail investors, which has increased fourfold in the last 11 months.

"This is the year for retail investors in the Indonesian capital market and hopefully it will become a great foundation for future capital market growth," he said.

To continue to strengthen services and maintain the momentum of growth in the Indonesian capital market, the IDX together with the OJK and the Indonesian capital market SRO have launched a series of strategic initiatives in 2020.

"All these initiatives are aimed at strengthening go public services to prospective companies, expanding capital market instruments and products, expanding trade infrastructure for the bond market and strengthening information disclosure infrastructure to support the protection of Indonesian capital market investors," he explained.


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