TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) of Pekanbaru Chapter reported that the city of Pekanbaru in Riau province has the potential to become the center of investor growth due to the high enthusiasm of the people in the province to make investment.
"In addition, this potential is also strengthened by the population of Pekanbaru that reaches 1 million people,” said Head of IDX Riau Branch Office Emon Sulaiman in Pekanbaru on Sunday (22/1).
He added there are around 9,100 people who have the potentials to become investors in Riau province, in which around 4,000-5,000 of them are in Pekanbaru city.
"We got the figure based on a survey we carried out in 2016,” he said, adding that the number of investors aged between 18-25 years old reaches 2,000 people while the rest is above 40 years old.
Nevertheless, he added, this big potential is not yet proportional to the people’s knowledge on investment.
"The people’s knowledge about investment and capital market is still very limited; so most of them do not understand types of investment. Therefore we continue to improve their knowledge (on investment and capital market) by speeding up the spread of information,” he added.
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