RP50 million of her money is gone, a loss equal to two and a half times her initial capital. But Astrid Sari doesn’t mind. The 34-year-old continues to invest in the securities market, convinced that she will recoup the loss in no time.

In mid-March the composite share price index of the Indonesian Stock Exchange (ISE) fell 338 points (12.4 percent) to 2,383.420. The turbulence in the first quarter of 2008 not only hit the capital market in Ja