JAKARTA. PT Bursa Komoditas dan Derivative Indonesia (BKDI) or also known as ICDX is ready to hold its annual tin conference next September 2016. This is a manifestation of BKDI's efforts to encourage tin product trading activities in Indonesia.

In a press conference held at the Capitol Building on Thursday (18/8), BKDI ready to hold Tin Conference and Exhibition 2016 in Bali on 18-20 September 2016 later. The theme is Navigating Indonesia Becoming The Global Leader in Tin Industry.

"Indonesia as one of the largest producers of tin should be able to answer and meet the needs and challenges both from within and outside the country," said Megain Widjaja, Chief Executive Officer of BKDI, at Capitol Building, Thursday (18/8).

Hopefully in the future BKDI can have a share in the formation of global tin selling price. Indeed, since it officially traded tin commodities, BKDI provides five types of tin contracts namely TINPB300, TINPB200, TINPB100, TINPB50, and TIN4NINE. For TINPB itself, the maximum limit of tin impurities is 300 parts per million. While TIN4NINE is a premium product with 99.9% tin bar.

"Through standardized quality and consistent promotion, Indonesia's tin can win global competition," Megain said optimistically.

Tin commodity is one of the mainstay of BKDI's multilateral products. As an illustration in the first quarter of 2016 BKDI tin multilateral transactions flew 163.83% with a total of 28,956 lots over the previous quarter.

Reporter Namira Daufina

Editor Barratut Taqiyyah

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