Indonesia has spent decades establishing itself as one of the world\u2019s most important emerging markets. Now the country \u2014 Southeast Asia\u2019s largest economy, with a gross domestic product of about $1.5 trillion \u2014 risks losing that standing, potentially jeopardizing billions of dollars in foreign investment.<\/p>\n
In January, index provider MSCI Inc<\/a>. warned<\/a> that it might downgrade Indonesia\u2019s equity market from \u201cemerging\u201d to \u201cfrontier.\u201d Those classifications help determine how global investors allocate trillions of dollars across markets, influencing how easily governments and companies can raise capital. The warning crystallized long-standing concerns over ownership concentration and market integrity in the country\u2019s equities, triggering one of the worst selloffs in the nation\u2019s stock market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indonesia has spent decades establishing itself as one of the world\u2019s most important emerging markets. Now the country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3995,28,100789,30623,144,101,11634,11501,1556,2420,3996,112,310763,8348,923],"class_list":["post-724547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-businessweek","tag-capital-markets","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-emerging-markets","tag-explainer","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-indonesia","tag-markets","tag-msci-inc","tag-southeast-asia","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}