THE morning session of share transactions hadn’t started yet. Dozens of investors were already crowding the trade gallery of PT Mandiri Sekuritas in the Bank Mandiri building, on Jalan Gatot Subroto, Jakarta, on Thursday of last week. Flocking the desks and chairs in the room, with impatience written all over their faces, they were passionately desiring to buy and sell shares at the Indonesia Stock Exchange, IDX.

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