REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR -- Growth in the number of investors in Bali had the best record at the end of 2014 yesterday. The number of investors from this island increased by 21 percent, from 4,939 investors by the end of 2013 to 6,272 investors at the end of 2014.

"As of April 2015, Bali already has 6,693 majority investors in Denpasar and the highest record so far," said Head of Representative Office of Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) Denpasar, I Gusti Agung Alit Nityaryana, on Friday, May 15.

Indonesian capital market development in the whole of 2014 showed a positive achievement, along with the carrying amount of the new record. Influence of the political climate as a result of general elections (Pemilu) in July 2014 did not decrease the optimism of investors to make the deal in the Indonesian capital market.

IDX data showing the movement of the stock price index (IHSG) rose 21.15 percent to 5178.373 points on December 29, 2014. In fact, on September 8, 2014, IHSG managed to record the highest in the history of the index closed at 5246.489 points. Stock market capitalization increased by 22.76 percent to Rp 5,179 trillion at December 29, 2014.

IHSG growth in the year to date was recorded at the fourth highest when compared to the major stock exchanges in the region and the world. IHSG level on 2014 has exceeded the Stock Exchange of Thailand (15.15 percent), Japan's Nikkei index (8.83 per cent), Singapore Exchange (6.32 percent), Hong Kong Stock (2 percent), the Australian Stock Exchange (1.75 percent), Index Britain's FTSE 100 (-1.71 percent), Korea Exchange (-4.15 per cent), the United States’s Dow Jones Index (-4.95 percent), and Bursa Malaysia (-5.28 percent).

The opportunities and advantages of investing in Indonesia's capital market further enhance the attractiveness of the capital market of Indonesia in the eyes of foreign investors. Throughout January to December 2014, foreign investors posted a net buying, which reached the highest record in history, amounting to IDR 40.102 trillion. Conceptually, said Alit, IDX wanted investors in Indonesia not only dominated by foreign investors in which portion has reached 60 percent.

Director of Capital Markets Setting of Funding Service Authority (OJK), Gonthor Ryantori Aziz, added that the company had 13 offices of security companies that could facilitate local communities to deepen the capital market investment in Bali. Societies in Indonesia, according to him should be directed from the beginning only oriented saving (saving society) become investing (investing society).

"We are quite rational targeting growth of domestic investors in the capital market, namely qualified investors, not just quantity," said Gonthor to Republika.

Gonthor also mentioned about the small number of investors in eastern Indonesia which is due to the absence of a securities company office there. Currently there is only one securities company office in the East. Therefore, IDX coordinate with the campus to open the gallery investments starting this year.

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