by Harry Su
Senior
Associate Director
Head of
Research
Bahana
Securities
(published also at The Jakarta Post daily)
The Indonesian market’s volatility is currently
confronting triple whammies in the form of:
1. Scaled-back QE, 2. IDR weakness and 3. Higher interest rates. These factors have caused a 10% market
pullback since its recent peak at 5,215.
Note that back in 2005 and 2008 when the government implemented fuel
price hikes the index corrected 12% and 16% respectively over a period of one
month.
At this stage of the cycle, we advise investors to
begin accumulating stocks at around the 4,500-4600 level with the view of
adding to positions in the event the market would overshoot on the way down.
According to our technical analyst, the market could head to 4,200.