TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) continued to conduct a number of initiatives to increase new investors in the Indonesian stock market.
IDX management said in a press release, as quoted by Bisnis on Sunday, February 7, 2016, that the initiatives would be focused on four main development areas, namely increasing the number of stock issuers, strengthening brokers, increasing the number of investors and building IDX reputation.
One of the initiatives realized by the IDX in the first week of February 2016 was reactivating the future contract trading and the LQ45 Futures on Monday, February 1, 2016.
The reactivations was preceded with an opening of trading by eight IDX members as liquidity providers for the derivative products, followed by a press conference on the same day.
The IDX also crafted education programs, such as the Stock Market School for Padang UPUI “YPTK” professors and staff, the Investor Candidate Forum for principals of junior high schools in Jambi, the Introduction to Stock Market at the Dili Institute of Technolgy, and the Introduction to Stock Market for West East Java Regional Bank (BPD) staff in Malang.
A number of opening ceremonies conducted by the IDX last week include the trade opening by the School of Business and Management of the Bandung Institute of Technology.
BISNIS.COM