JAKARTA – Jakarta Stock Price Composite Index (JCI) saw 0.75% or 52.71-points increase to 7,036.57 last week, led by some of blue-chip state-owned stocks.

For example, PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (TLKM) is leading the Top Leaders board with 7.48% jump in price, thus boosting the index by 22.42 points.

TLKM was followed by PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk (BMRI) with 2.2% price increase and a contribution of 10.91 index points.

Aside from these two, there were also PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BBRI) with 0.99% increase and 5.17 index points, and PT Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BBNI) with 2.35% surge and 3.49 index points.

Last week, the transaction value recorded at the stock exchange clocked up to IDR 31.92 trillion, or equal to USD 1.97 billion. Transaction volume arrived at 73.2 million shares, recorded in 2.91 million transactions.

Foreign investors registered net buy of IDR 128.78 billion last week. In contrast with the week prior, foreign investors listed net sell of IDR 4.09 trillion. (KR/ZH)