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IDX trading not affected by mezzanine collapse: OJK
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Indonesian employees try to return to their offices at the Indonesia Stock Exchange after part of it collapsed in Jakarta on Jan. 15. (AFP/Adek Berry)
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he Financial Services Authority (OJK) has said the mezzanine collapse at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) did not affect trading in the bourse.
OJK deputy commissioner for strategic and logistics management Anto Prabowo said the agency had been informed by IDX management that all information systems were running as normal and transactions had taken place normally.
“There is no disruption in the electricity and the network. All systems – JATS (Jakarta Automated Trading System), E-CLEARS (the clearing system) and C-BEST (the settlement system) – are normal,” Anto said in a statement on Monday.
Meanwhile, the police reported that 72 people were injured when the mezzanine at the IDX collapsed.
The mezzanine at Tower 2 of the complex collapsed at 11:55 a.m. local time during a visit by university students, said spokesman Argo Yuwono as reported by Bloomberg.
The stock exchange complex is composed of two 32-floor towers, with the intact Tower 1 completed in 1994 and the damaged Tower 2 in 1998, according to the website of developer Sudirman Central Business District.
The building also houses the World Bank local office, according to the bourse website. The exchange switched to automated trading in May 1995, clearing the trading floor of brokers. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited the exchange on the last trading day of 2017, his third visit in a span of 6 months. (bbn)
