The index of the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) fell 91.67 points or 1.84 percent to 4,893.91.
Meanwhile the index of 45 most liquid stocks dropped 2.84 percent to 824.55 points.
The trade on Friday was marked with profit taking following rupiah fall against the US dollar, HD Capitals analyst Yuganur Wijanarko said.
Rupiah traded in interbank transaction at the level of 11,674 per dollar weakening from earlier level of 11,632 .
Yuganur said more holidays this week was another factor prompting profit taking .
He predicted, however, the JCI would climb again after going through the pressure, adding there is still expectation that the JCI would cross the level of 5,000 points.
There were 205,584 transactions in the trade on Friday with 4.08 billion shares worth Rp8.22 trillion changing hands.
Gainers were outnumbered by decliners by 127 to 204 with 67 shares flat .
Regional markets such as Hang Seng recorded an increase of 0.31 percent in index to 23,081.65 points with Nikkei index down 0.34 percent to 14,632.38 points and that of Straits Times declining 0.15 percent to 3,295.85 points.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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