​Financial Services Authority, Banda Aceh, September 5, 2016: The Capital Market Supervision Division (BPSPM) will hold Information Dissemination and Education on the 2016 Integrated Capital Market from September 5, 2016 to September 7, 2016, in Banda Aceh.

The Financial Services Authority (OJK) has been conducting this kind of event since 2015 in eight big cities across Indonesia (Surabaya, Purwokerto, Medan, Makassar, Samarinda, Bandung, Solo, and Cirebon) in partnership with the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) and the Indonesian Association of Mutual Fund Managers (APRDI).

The first objective of the event is to raise awareness among the local community, journalists, and business players about actual issues concerning the capital market. Second, it wishes to educate the public on how to make smart and safe investment decisions.

Further, the event serves as a way to persuade the public to become investors in the capital market, and an occasion to raise awareness among the OJK officials/staff about functions and duties of the Capital Market Supervision Division (BPSPM) and to make sure they all have the same perception on how to manage issues about the capital market in local areas. The event also represents one of the actual activities that the OJK carries out to utilize the fees paid by the financial services companies under its supervision.

Target participants of the event include the local OJK officials/staff, business players, journalists, lecturers/teachers, and university students.

The three-day event in Banda Aceh consists of the following activities: a Journalist Workshop on September 5, 2016, at The Pade Hotel, Banda Aceh; a Seminar about Capital Market at the Islamic Economics and Business Faculty of the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University, in which about 250 persons are expected to participate, and talkshows in local electronic media─both activities to be conducted on September 6, 2016; a Seminar about Capital Market at the Economics Faculty of the Syiah Kuala University, in which about 250 persons are expected to participate,  and an in-depth discussion about capital market material with the officials/staff of the OJK Aceh Office─both activities to be conducted on September 7, 2016.