Capital Market Authority is rigorous to familiarize Indonesia capital market and viable for Indonesian people.
Numerous socializations are done by the Capital Market Authority in several regions and universities. They also engage in reaching out retail investors to gain benefit in Indonesia capital market. The prominent grounds of such an endeavour is that out 240 million of Indonesians, there are merely 405 thousand securities sub account per November 2013.
An alternative chosen from many, is reduce the lot amount of shares. This arrangement has been alarmed since 2012. Starting from janury 6th, 2014, the shares lot will be decreased from 500 shares a lot to 100 shares.
The authority will also alter the segment of price share, i.e. the price less than Rp 500 will become Rp 1. And for the price ranging from Rp 500 to less than Rp 5.000, it will become Rp 5. For the price above Rp 5.000, the fraction will become Rp 25.
The other step is to ensure the safety of investment in capital market for investors. That is by creating investor protection fund and its institutions, namely Indonesia Securities Investor Protection Fund that starts to operate on January 2014.
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