Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 8
S&P Dow Jones Warns Indonesia Could Lose Emerging-Market Status Over Stock Market Concerns
Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 8

S&P Dow Jones Warns Indonesia Could Lose Emerging-Market Status Over Stock Market Concerns

1 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 8

Summary

  • S&P Dow Jones Indices said Indonesia could eventually be cut to frontier-market status, a fresh blow to Jakarta’s campaign to reassure global investors.
  • Persistent concerns over transparency, liquidity and the small free float in some of Indonesia’s biggest listed companies are driving the warning.
  • The signal is likely to deepen doubts over whether recent reforms have gone far enough to fix long-running investor complaints about the market’s structure and disclosure.
  • S&P had already placed Indonesia under potential reclassification review and said it was monitoring Indonesia Stock Exchange guidance on ownership transparency and disclosure issues.

Insights

Why is Indonesia facing a market downgrade while neighbors like Vietnam are being promoted?
Is the threat to Indonesia's market more about broken rules or a fundamental loss of trust?
With its currency in freefall, can Indonesia's reforms prevent a massive foreign capital exodus?