Sehari sebelum pemilu legislatif 9 April 2014, indeks harga saham gabungan di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BIE) memang hanya naik sangat tipis 0,315 poin atau 0,007 persen dibandingkan awal pekan ini. Pada hari Senin (7/4), indeks saham naik cukup tajam, 63,095 poin atau 1,299 persen dibandingkan petutupan bursa akhir pekan lalu.
Namun, bila kita bandingkan dengan posisi akhir tahun 2013 (year to date), indeks sudah naik lumayan tinggi, yaitu 15,14 persen. Year on year pun sudah positif walaupun masih kecil sebesar 0,488 persen.
Bila dibandingkan dengan kinerja saham-saham dunia, sungguh saham Indonesia yang paling berbinar-binar. Tak dinyana, per 2 April 2014, kinerja indeks saham Indonesia year to date dalam $ term ternyata paling tinggi di dunia dengan pertumbuhan 22,8 persen. Pencapaian ini mirip dengan yang terjadi pada bulan Mei 2013.
Melihat gelagat ini, sangat boleh jadi dalam beberapa bulan ke depan IHSG bisa menorehkan rekor baru. Rekor sebelumnya adalah 5.214,976 pada 20 Mei 2013.
Pemilu yang damai dan kehadiran pemimpin baru yang dicintai rakyatnya diharapkan tidak hanya mengerek indeks saham, tetapi juga menghembuskan harapan baru bagi percepatan kesejahteraan rakyat yang berkeadilan.
Faisal Basri is currently senior lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia and Chief of Advisory Board of Indonesia Research & Strategic Analysis (IRSA). His area of expertise and discipline covers Economics, Political Economy, and Economic Development.
His prior engagement includes Economic Adviser to the President of Republic of Indonesia on economic affairs (2000); Head of the Department of Economics and Development Studies, Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (1995-98); and Director of Institute for Economic and Social Research at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (1993-1995), the Commissioner of the Supervisory Commission for Business Competition (2000-2006); Rector, Perbanas Business School (1999-2003).
He was the founder of the National Mandate Party where he was served in the Party as the first Secretary General and then the Deputy Chairman responsible for research and development. He quit the Party in January 2001. He has actively been involved in several NGOs, among others is The Indonesian Movement.
Faisal Basri was educated at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia where he received his BA in 1985 and graduated with an MA in economics from Vanderbilt University, USA, in 1988.
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