Monday, 28 January, 2008 | 12:58 WIB<\/p>\n
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Compared to investors in other countries, investors in Indonesia are extremely optimistic that the US economy, which is now sluggish due to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, will improve soon.<\/p>\n
The optimism of Indonesian investors is also reflected in the ING Investor Sentiment Index released by ING - a Dutch financial institution, last week in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Out of all Asian investors surveyed by ING, as much as 37 percent of Indonesian investors are optimistic that that the US economy will improve soon.<\/p>\n
On the other hand however, investors from Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan are less optimistic, with percentages of 13 percent, 12 percent and 11 percent respectively.<\/p>\n
The survey also showed that the sentiment of investors in Indonesia toward the capital market is still very positive.<\/p>\n
Out of 100 investors, only seven percent of investors said that their investments in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (ISX) would be influenced by the sub-prime mortgage crisis during the next three months.<\/p>\n
Most of them (73 percent) said they believed that investing in the capital market was still profitable.<\/p>\n
Robert Scholten, PT ING Securities Indonesia's President Director, said that the enthusiastic Indonesian capital market and other fast-developing key sectors such as infrastructure, natural resources, property and finance, have made investors even more certain and confident as regards investing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this positive condition, the capital market will later on become one of the major contributors to Indonesia's economic growth,\u201d said Scholten in a press statement.<\/p>\n
According to Scholten, this year the investors' sentiment will be pushed by the same domestic factors as last year.<\/p>\n
However, the decrease in the global market's sentiment had the potential to increase negative impacts over interest in investing and will support a conservative investment approach.<\/p>\n
Several observers are still certain that Indonesia can still survive the threat of an American recession.<\/p>\n
Avilliani, an economic observer from the Institute for Development and Finance (Indef), said that there will not be a financial crisis in Indonesia this year.<\/p>\n
The indicators are that the Rupiah exchange rate is still quite stable and a lot of capital inflows are still entering Indonesia.<\/p>\n
She said she was more concerned over a possible crisis in the real sector, as base commodities' prices could soar as public purchasing power is low.<\/p>\n
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