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Tridomain Performance Materials, a company with its roots in Singapore, is planning to release 40 percent of its total share capital through an initial public offering (IPO) on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Sinarmas Sekuritas has been appointed as underwriter.
The benchmark Jakarta Composite Index has been touching one record high after another over the past month. However, among the 567 companies that are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, not all are attractive for investors. Below, we present the top 32 "sleeping stocks" in Indonesia. The share movements of these companies were insignificant, or in fact zero (inactive), in 2017.
Bambang Brodjonegoro, Indonesia's Minister of National Development Planning, said there occurred a 20 percent increase in non-government consumption ahead of Indonesia's presidential election in 2014. Considering 2018 and 2019 are political years (with regional elections in 2018 and legislative and presidential elections in 2019), we can expect to see a new boost for consumption in Southeast Asia's largest economy.
Research institute Frost & Sullivan expects car sales in Indonesia to rise 4.6 percent year-on-year (y/y) in 2018 supported by growing domestic demand for commercial vehicles, stable demand for low-cost green cars (LCGCs), the availability of affordable car prices, and the launch of new car models.
