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Mounting crisis in Indonesia

Indonesia’s stock market tumbled on Friday after global index provider MSCI warned it could exclude the country from its main indices, deepening concerns about investability in south-east Asia’s largest economy. The country’s benchmark Jakarta Composite Index plunged 11.6 per cent, triggering a trading halt, after MSCI warned it could downgrade Indonesia to standalone market status. MSCI’s indices are closely followed by emerging-market investors and the warning, a significant escalation, could trigger billions of dollars of outflows. Friday’s fall is the Indonesian market’s largest single-day drop since January 1998, when the country’s stocks were buffeted in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. MSCI warned in January that it could downgrade Indonesia from emerging market status to frontier market, signalling greater investment risk. It cited concerns over market opacity, concentrated shareholdings and insider trading. Indonesia is the world’s worst-performing stock market this year, having lost more than 40 per cent. Foreign investors have pulled close to $5bn from the country’s stock market this year. “Feedback from market participants suggests that a reclassification to Frontier Markets would not properly recognize the depth of the market problems,” a statement from the index provider said on Thursday.

Source: FT

Chaos in Bali

Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal

🇮🇩 This is how catastrophic fuel shortages have become in Bali.

With the Iran war having no end in sight, we can only expect the situation to become truly HORRIFIC before it gets any better!

Writer: Mhedi

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