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Indonesia Stock Exchange shut for a second day
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-09 16:49


A broker relaxes at the close of Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta October 9, 2008. Indonesia kept its stock exchange shut for a second day on Thursday after the index lost more than a fifth of its value this week and officials scrambled to calm fears that Southeast Asia's biggest economy faces a new crisis. Indonesia was the country hardest hit by the Asian financial crisis a decade ago due in part to large corporate foreign debt and a weak banking system. [Agencies]