CAPITAL MARKETS - Islamic securities attract more interests - Islamic stock trading infrastructure needs to develop

JAKARTA: Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) is responding to investors\' huge interests in the Islamic capital market by considering grouping 198 Islamic stocks into one special index group.

Director of Development at BEI Friderica Widyasari Dewi revealed BEI wanted to develop the Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) to not only cover 30 blue-chip Islamic stocks.