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THE CAPITAL MARKET INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AS PART OF FORMAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM IN INDONESIA

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A number of capital market participants to assess specific curriculum needs to enter the capital market in the formal education in Indonesia. This is intended to encourage higher domestic investors to enter the capital market. Just imagine 250 million people of Indonesia, the people involved directly to investors just hover around 300 thousand. Of course this is a very small number.

For this reason there is need for a way to enhance the growth of the financial investment industry / public capital markets in Indonesia. The prospects for stocks and derivatives industry in Indonesia, if people are properly educated, then the concerns that had been inherent in the society of the capital markets industry could be lost. Image of the stock and derivative products industry in Indonesia is relatively less received a positive response from the community. This formal special education simply is not only useful for strengthening the investor base, but also will improve the quality of Human Resources (HR) in the industry.

HR needs in this industry will be very high, while the world of education in Indonesia has not entered a specific curriculum and applicable on shares and derivatives, but education is not only an impact on an increasing number of investors but also of human resources in the industry at large.

THE RICH ACCOUNT DEPOSIT FUNDS DOMINATION IN INDONESIA BANK

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Agencies Deposit Insurance Corporation (DIC/LPS) to record up to December 2011 general bank account with a value of more than IDR 2 billion fund controlled 50.75 percent of deposits in banks in Indonesia.

Chairman of LPS/DIC Firdaus Djaelani said the accounts that have a value of more than IDR 2 billion is there as much as 136,890 accounts with total deposits reaching IDR 1.436, 45 trillion.

“Indeed, the number of accounts that only 0.13 percent of total accounts it holds half the savings banks. This is because the value of savings exceeds $ 2 billion,” said Firdaus in a meeting with members of the House Commission XI, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday (25 / 1) .

He further said, the public’s deposits at commercial banks with a value below IDR 2 billion recorded as many as 101 366 680 accounts with a value of deposits reached IDR 1393.87 billion. Then the total deposits in the banking community reached IDR 2830.32 billion as of December 2011, with the total number of accounts as many as 101 503 570 accounts.

DOLLAR HIGHER, GOLD FUTURES PRICES DECREASING

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Gold futures prices fell along with the strengthening U.S. dollar against the euro so eroded the demand for gold as an investment alternative. Gold futures contract for February delivery fell 0.1 percent to 1596.70 per troy ounce (equivalent to 31.1 grams) at 1:59 PM at the Comex in New York on Monday (19/12/2011) local time.

The strengthening U.S. dollar not the euro zone because of the condition is still bad. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said, a substantial risk to the economy of Europe is still there. The euro also fell 0.5 percent. It will take much time for investors to regain confidence in gold as a protector of the crisis, given the magnitude of shocks in recent years.

Nevertheless, Andrey Kryuchenkov, an analyst at VTB Capital in London, Monday, remained optimistic gold will perform well in the long run. “Gold will suffer from the recent turmoil because of the liquidity of U.S. dollars, but in the long run gold will remain solid,” said Kryuchenkov.

According to him, an accommodative monetary policy in the world will continue to secure the role of gold as an inflation protector.