BEI boss reveals why RI deserves to survive at Emerging Market

The Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) confirmed Indonesia is still viable for the Emerging Market status. This statement was delivered following MSCI's announcement about the decline of Indonesian market status to Standalone Market.

A number of parties also called seeing Indonesia still meet the criteria of Emerging Market. In many discussions, global investors even rate the Indonesian capital market is still viable in that category.

"If Indonesia is worthy of Emerging, Even the participants, the global investors who discussed with us all agreed, that Indonesia met all criteria to be at Emerging Market," firm Director of BEI, Jeffrey Hendrik, to reporters at BEI Building, Jakarta, Monday (19 / 10 / 2026).

Jeffrey said the MSCI in his notes also contained a number of Emerging Market criteria that were filled with Indonesia. Even Jeffrey claims Indonesia is better than any other country in Emerging Market.

"In the attachments presented by MSCI itself, there are many points and points to be seen in Indonesia. Even in some points, Indonesia is better than other Emerging Market countries," bright Jeffrey.

According to the BEI reports regarding Emerging and Standalone differences, Indonesia is confirmed worthy to remain on current status.

The state aspect entered the Standalone classification among them; capital control, repatriation is prohibited; rare dollars, stalled valas; market is closed, war / sanctions; and markets are inaccessible.

While Indonesia does not have that criteria for free-entry capital flow; foreign values with a US reserve $146.3 billion; bursa and geopolitics, likuid, unsanctioned; and currently increases data quality as MSCI requested.

"Indonesian Character = EM (Emerging Market). Standalone for the uninvested market. Indonesia: capitalization US $498 billion, inflation 3.28%, 9 shares in MSCI Standard Index," write the report.