Indonesia’s Investment Law and Negative Investment List (DNI) are not applicable to capital market transactions. Interpreted literally, this means foreign investors can arbitrarily increase their share participation in a company by engaging capital market transactions. This is not acceptable since the government puts a limit on foreign shares participation in certain business sectors. This normative-empiric study discusses practices in telecommunication industry that deviate from DNI, the conse-quences, and viable solutions. We found that literal interpretation is inconsistent to the objective of the DNI. We offer alternative approach that is more applicable and suitable to the given objec-tives.Keywords : negative investment list, foreign ownership restriction, portfolio investment, capital market transaction.
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