At least 72 people have been injured when a mezzanine floor inside the Jakarta stock exchange tower collapsed, forcing a chaotic evacuation.
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.
Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said 72 people were injured, adding that they were being treated in four hospitals.
Stock exchange general president Tito Sulistio said no one had been killed.
"I guarantee that there were no fatalities," he said. "I helped evacuate the victims to the park and as far as I know, the worst injuries are fractures."
National police spokesman Setyo 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.
"There is no bomb element in the incident," Wasisto said.
The incident occurred at noon local time when many workers were on a lunch break.
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.
"Slabs of concrete started to fall, 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.
Hundreds of students were visiting the stock exchange at the time of the collapse.
The stock exchange remained open for its afternoon trading session.
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