How do natural disasters affect Indonesia’s stock market?
On August 5, 2018, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the Indonesian island of Lombok. The quake caused widespread damage and claimed at least 319 lives, making it the deadliest in the country since 2005. The disaster also exacerbated the already dire humanitarian situation on the island, where more than 350,000 people had been displaced by a series of earlier quakes.
The impact of the earthquake on Indonesia’s stock …