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Jakarta (ANTARA) - Composite Stock Price Index of the Indonesia Stock Exchange Tuesday afternoon session in the middle of the lack of a positive move internally and externally so that the sentiment index rose just one point.

Composite Stock Price Index (CSPI) closed up 1.760 points (0.06 percent) to 2879.06 and LQ45, 45 groups of superior stock, up 0.494 points (0.09 percent) to the position of 558.575.

"Today is minimal sentiment, investors are more selective in its purchases of stock from the transactions were minimal," said PT Citi Pacific Securities analyst Hendri Effendi in Jakarta, Tuesday.

He added that the index moved in a narrow range and there are no factors that make investors make transactions as usual and the stock moves varied.

The movement of the stock on Monday was dominated trading down as much as 101 compared to a rose 64, while 62 had not changed its price.

Stock transactions that occurred as many as 33 833 times the volume reached 1.227 billion shares and the value of Rp835, 478 billion. Exchanges in Asia as the Hang Seng index rose 42.05 points (0.21 percent) to the position of 19884.25, the Nikkei 225 rose 52.44 or 0.57 percent, to 9319.22, and the Singapore Straits Time Index rose 1.27 points (0.04 percent) to a level of 2845.29.