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Indonesia strives to build a financial market to match its size

There's greater activity in hedging and the central bank has allowed a wider scope of derivatives

Published Tue, May 9, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Jakarta

INDONESIA has the largest economy in South-east Asia, but you can't tell from its financial markets, which are a fraction the size of some of its neighbours.

The nation's regulators have tried to change that, and progress is being made. The rupiah's daily trading volume has climbed more than 40 per cent in four years.

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