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        "id": 1811276,
        "msgid": "msci-issues-negative-signal-to-indonesia-ihsg-faces-potential-rp214-trillion-outflow-1781830269",
        "date": "2026-06-19 07:07:36",
        "title": "MSCI Issues Negative Signal to Indonesia, IHSG Faces Potential Rp214 Trillion Outflow",
        "author": "Lida Puspaningtyas",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Finance",
        "summary": "Global index provider MSCI has heightened concerns over Indonesia's investability, citing opaque share ownership and coordinated trading behaviour. The warning comes ahead of a decision next week on whether to downgrade Indonesia from emerging to frontier market status, a move that could trigger capital outflows of up to USD 13 billion. Indonesian authorities had previously introduced reforms, including raising the minimum free float, but MSCI has since downgraded the country's information flow criteria and removed several tycoon-linked companies from its indices.",
        "content": "<p>Global index provider MSCI on Thursday (18\/6\/2026) further raised\nconcerns regarding Indonesia\u2019s investability, highlighting limited\nvisibility in share ownership and the presence of coordinated trading\nbehaviour. This marks a fresh blow for the world\u2019s worst-performing\nmajor stock market. The warning comes ahead of MSCI\u2019s decision next week\non whether to downgrade Indonesia\u2019s market classification from emerging\nmarket to frontier market status. Such a downgrade could potentially\ntrigger capital outflows of up to 13 billion US dollars, or\napproximately Rp214 trillion. Indonesia\u2019s capital market has slumped\nsharply since MSCI first flagged transparency concerns in January and\nwarned of the potential reclassification. In its market accessibility\nreview released on Thursday, MSCI downgraded Indonesia\u2019s information\nflow criteria to negative. This reflects opacity in ownership data and\nmarket activity, which is deemed to undermine proper price formation and\nlimit global investors\u2019 ability to assess the true public free float of\nrelevant companies. The January warning had initially prompted a series\nof reform measures by local authorities, including doubling the minimum\nfree float requirement for listed companies to 15%. At the same time,\ntop executives of the stock exchange and regulatory bodies resigned en\nmasse one afternoon in January. In April, MSCI extended its review\nperiod for the Indonesian market. Then in May, MSCI ejected six\ncompanies, mostly linked to major tycoons, from its indices, triggering\nanother sharp decline in share prices. A downgrade by MSCI, one of the\nworld\u2019s largest index providers guiding billions of dollars in passive\ninvestments, would force index tracking funds to sell. Moreover, it\nwould pressure active investment managers benchmarked against MSCI\nindices to promptly reduce their exposure to Indonesia.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/msci-issues-negative-signal-to-indonesia-ihsg-faces-potential-rp214-trillion-outflow-1781830269",
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