Footage from local TV shows the looby strewn with debris and people being carried out on stretchers.

The building is one of a two-tower complex which was targeted in a car bombing by Islamist militants in September 2000.

Police ruled out a bomb as a cause of Monday's collapse. They said at least 77 people had been injured.

A spokeswoman for Jakarta's Siloam Hospital said it had received 30 people.

Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono told Metro TV: "We are focusing on the evacuation process right now."</s></s>(CNN) -- Dozens of people were injured Monday when a floor at the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta collapsed, spilling people onto the lobby area below.

At least 77 people were taken to local hospitals after a hallway between two buildings suddenly gave way, according to Argo Yuwono, senior commissioner for Jakarta police department.

Two people have since been discharged. Police said most injuries were minor and they did not comment on the cause of the collapse.

A CNN Indonesia correspondent said after the collapse the stock exchange director was shouting at people through a loudspeaker to evacuate the building, which also houses the World Bank's Indonesia office.

Valentina Simon, head of Institutional Relations at the exchange, told CNN the collapse happened at around 12:30 p.m. local time. She described the lobby as an open space where tourists would gather, and buy drinks and snacks from a coffee shop on the ground floor.

The lobby was crowded at the time of the collapse, just after people had finished lunch.

Dozens of university students were visiting the stock exchange at the time, many of them accountancy students visiting Jakarta from the island of Sumatra, according to CNN Indonesia.

Videos showed some of the students being rushed to the nearby Siloam hospital.

Some were suffering from head and neck injuries, and a hospital spokeswoman said doctors suspected some had bone fractures.

Images on CNN Indonesia showed police cordoning off the area, and directing traffic and crowds from the site.

Officials say they do not know the cause of the collapse. Indonesia has been known to have relatively poor construction standards, and corruption sometimes means safety checks are not always thoroughly carried out.

In a tweet, the exchange said trading would continue as normal "without significant change to the trading schedule."

The head of communication for the stock exchange, Oskar Herliansyah, confirmed to CNN that trading will resume as usual Tuesday. Trading continued later Monday, with the composite index closed at 6,382.19, or 0.10 up.</s>JAKARTA: More than 70 people were injured after a mezzanine floor at the Indonesia Stock Exchange collapsed onto the building's lobby on Monday (Jan 15).

Police cordoned off the complex as people fled the building and the injured, including students visiting the building, were taken away by stretcher. Others were seen sitting on steps outside the lobby.



"I can definitely confirm there are no deaths," director of the Indonesian stock exchange, Tito Sulistio said on Metro TV.

Those hurt mostly had injuries to their legs and arms, Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said.

"The accident happened at the first floor ... It's a floor where many employees pass through ... There are some victims but they have been taken to a nearby hospital," Yuwono told reporters.

He did not confirm how many people had been hurt in the accident.

Television news footage showed people panicking and screaming as officials tried to evacuate the area amid piles of debris.

A reporter from Metro TV, who was in the building to cover the stock market, said the incident happened shortly after noon.



"There was a loud bang so people who were inside immediately ran outside of the building," said journalist Marlia Zein.



Images circulating on social media showed a mangled metal structure that had collapsed around a Starbucks cafe near the entrance to the lobby.​​​​​​​

"Slabs of concrete started to fall and there was lots of dust. Water pipes had burst," said Megha Kapoor, who works in the building and was in the lobby at the time.

"I heard a loud cracking sound. I saw a lady unconscious stuck under slab of concrete," she said, adding that the collapsed level was just above the reception desk.

She said there had been group of high school students on the level when it gave way.



The Indonesia Stock Exchange is located in central Jakarta, and the local office of the World Bank is also housed on the 12th floor of the complex, according to its website.

The building is part of a two-tower complex which was the target of a suicide bombing by Islamist militants in September 2000, but police ruled out a bomb as a cause of Monday's collapse.



The exchange resumed business in the afternoon.</s>Jakarta: A mezzanine floor inside the Indonesia Stock Exchange tower has collapsed, injuring more than 70 people and forcing a chaotic evacuation.

A video posted on Twitter by ABC Indonesia Correspondent Adam Harvey showed a group of school students on the floor as it gave way.

Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said hundreds of students were visiting the stock exchange at the time of the collapse.

The incident happened at noon when workers were on a lunch break.

MetroTV footage showed the lobby strewn with debris and people being helped out of the building while others lay on the grass or steps outside the tower.

National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said victims were taken to three hospitals.

Mr Wasisto ruled out terrorism as a cause of Monday's collapse. The building is part of a two-tower complex which was the target of a suicide bombing by Islamist militants in September 2000.

A spokeswoman for Jakarta's Siloam Hospital said it had received more than two dozen victims and the seriousness of the injuries were still being assessed.

Jakarta Police later said 72 people had been injured in the collapse.

Images aired on television and circulated on social media showed a mangled metal structure that had collapsed around a Starbucks cafe near the entrance to the lobby.

"The second floor of the building has collapsed," said Vindy, a personal assistant to the exchange's president director, Tito Sulistio, who was in the building at the time.

Megha Kapoor, who works in the building and was in the lobby at the time, heard "a loud cracking sound".

"Slabs of concrete started to fall, there was lots of dust. Water pipes had burst," she said, adding that the collapsed level was just above the reception desk.

"I heard a loud cracking sound. I saw a lady unconscious stuck under slab of concrete."

Jakarta police said they were seeking more information on Monday's incident.

The stock exchange reopened for the afternoon session and all staff were safe.

"A hundred percent of bourse members are connected and safe," Mr Sulistio told reporters outside the building. "Bourse system is not affected."</s>JAKARTA: A floor at Indonesia’s stock exchange collapsed into the building’s lobby on Monday, injuring an unknown number of people, according to media reports.

“We are still investigating the cause, but for now our priorities are the casualties,” Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono told Metro TV.

Footage aired by TV stations showed several people lying on the ground and being carrying outside the building.

The police spokesman did not say how many were injured but added that there were no reports of deaths so far.

Television news footage showed people panicking and screaming as officials tried to evacuate the area amid piles of debris.

A reporter from Metro TV, who was in the building to cover the stock market, said the incident happened shortly after noon local time (0500 GMT).

“There was a loud banging so people who were inside immediately ran outside of the building,” said journalist Marlia Zein.

The structure appeared to be an internal balcony or mezzanine floor.

It collapsed on to the ground level of the complex’s second tower, Indonesian Stock Exchange spokesman Rheza Andhika told Bloomberg, adding that it had not been an explosion.

The Indonesia Stock Exchange is located in the center of Jakarta, and the local office of the World Bank is also housed on the 12th floor of the complex, according to its website. AFP</s>JAKARTA—A mezzanine walkway at the Indonesia Stock Exchange building collapsed under the feet of dozens of visiting university students Monday, and police said more than 70 people were injured.

The accident at one of Indonesia’s most prestige office buildings came as a shock. National police said they would join city inspectors to carry out an overnight safety audit before the complex’s Tower II could reopen Tuesday.</s>The second floor of the Indonesia Stock Exchange building has collapsed, an exchange employee said, injuring dozens of people under a shower of glass and other debris.

Jakarta police said 72 people were injured in the incident.

A spokeswoman for Jakarta's Siloam Hospital said it had received 28 victims from the exchange, and the seriousness of their injuries was still being assessed.

A college student visiting the stock exchange said she felt a tremor just before a mezzanine floor collapsed into the building's lobby, with the debris hitting and injuring some of her friends.

"We were visiting the Jakarta stock exchange as part of our study tour when the structure suddenly collapsed, causing chaos," the student, identified as Ade from Palembang in Sumatra, told Metro TV.

She said some of her friends had head wounds and broken bones.

Floor collapse 'not because of a bomb'

The floor collapse was not caused by a bomb, national police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said.

The building is one of a two-tower complex which was targeted in a car bombing by Islamist militants in September 2000.

Dozens of police officials cordoned off the multi-storey complex as many people ran away and others were seen sitting on steps outside the lobby.

"The second floor of the building has collapsed," said Vindy, a personal assistant to exchange president Tito Sulistio, who was in the building at the time.

Megha Kapoor, who works in the building and was in the lobby at the time, said: "Slabs of concrete started to fall, there was lots of dust. Water pipes had burst."

She said there had been a group of high school students on the level when it started collapsing.

Images from the scene showed a mangled metal structure that had collapsed around a Starbucks cafe near the entrance to the building in the heart of Jakarta's business district.

TV images showed some people sitting on the steps outside the building.

The ABC's Indonesia correspondent Adam Harvey, who was about 50 metres away from the building's lobby, said it appeared the ceiling had fallen on a crowded reception area.

"There are many casualties inside and ambulances are attempting to get through to the building where it looks like there has been some kind of floor collapse," he said.

"There is a wounded person in the back of the vehicle — that is a private vehicle with an ambulance stretcher in the back."

He said there were only a few rescue teams on site.

"Everyone is still arriving," he said.

"Another ambulance is leaving now with an injured patient."

Harvey said the building was in the heart of Jakarta's financial district.

"There are lots of western workers who work in this complex as well as many Indonesians," he said.

"There are Australians who work in this building, so we are just trying to work out what is happening.

"We don't really know what has gone on other than those reports that a floor has collapsed."

He said there had been no talk the incident was related to terrorism.

"I think it is probably safe to rule it out at this stage," he said.

"Building standards are an issue in Indonesia. This is not a new building. This has been here for a long time.

"There have been no recent earthquakes in Jakarta that might have sparked something."

Jakarta police said they were seeking more information on the incident.

The stock exchange reopened for the afternoon session. All staff were safe, it said.

"100 per cent of bourse members are connected and safe. Bourse system is not affected," Mr Sulistio told reporters outside the building.</s>At least 72 people were reported to have been injured after a mezzanine balcony collapsed at the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta on 15 January. Police officials were cordoning off the two-tower, multi-story complex as many people ran away and others were seen sitting on steps outside the lobby.</s>A university students on the second-floor walkway in Jakarta's Indonesia Stock Exchange building recalls crashing to the lobby before her leg was hit by falling concrete.

Ambulances are seen following reports of a collapsed floor inside the Indonesian Stock Exchange. (Credit: Reuters)

One of the university students injured in a dramatic accident in the heart of Jakarta's financial district remembers screaming for help as she lay injured on the floor of the Indonesia Stock Exchange building.

Firda Putri, 20, was part of a university study tour to the stock exchange on Monday.

CCTV footage shows the entire group falling several metres to the ground when the suspended walkway collapsed with 72 people were hurt in the incident.

"We were on the corridor on the second floor, but when my lecturer asked us to go back, suddenly it collapsed," she told the ABC from her bed at Jakarta's Mintohardjo Naval Hospital.

"I fell down to the lobby. I couldn't remember much. My legs were weak, my hands were weak.

"I don't remember when I fell, what I remember was that my leg was hit by concrete.

"I went out by myself, then my friend carried me.

Harry Setiawan was the shift supervisor at the Salad Stop restaurant in the building's lobby.

"There was a loud thundery noise, and dust everywhere getting into our store," he said.

"I thought it was an earthquake. It sounded like something fell, so I thought it was a quake.

"I was panicking — I tried to secure our stuff including the safebox, turn off the stove, electricity. I told everyone to get out, to evacuate."

The stock exchange building was attacked with a car bomb in 2000, but police quickly ruled out terrorism in relation to Monday's collapse.

They say they will obtain the building's blueprints and speak to the firm that built the walkway.

Construction standards in Indonesia are not as strong as in Australia — but the failure of part of a modern building like the stock exchange is extremely rare.

Photos of the aftermath of the accident show the steel cables that were holding the walkway still hanging from the building's roof.

It appears the walkway's suspended supports failed at the point where the cables were anchored to the walkway.
The mezzanine overlooking the main lobby of the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia, collapses, injuring at least 70 people. The Indonesian National Police ruled out terrorism as the cause.