Sri Mulyani Happy, Four Government Banks Earn IDR 34 Trillion Profit

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A total of four government-owned banking entities have completed financial reports for the first quarter of 2023.

It is known that the total net profit collected reached IDR 34.1 trillion, with each PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk. (BRI) of IDR 15.5 trillion, PT Bank Mandiri Tbk. amounting to IDR 12.6 trillion. Then, PT Bank Negara Indonesia Tbk. (BNI) IDR 5.2 trillion and PT Bank Tabungan Negara Tbk. (BTN) amounted to IDR 801 billion.

The moncer performance of the four Himbara banks (State Bank Association) is certainly a positive indicator in supporting the state budget in terms of separated state wealth income or KDN.

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani previously informed that as of March 2023, dividend payments received by the government from a number of SOEs reached IDR 4.6 trillion.

"This is higher than the last two years where dividends in March were not paid (due to the pandemic)," he said some time ago when describing the realization of the state budget.

The Minister of Finance explained that although the dividend in March 2023 was quite good, the value obtained had not yet reached the pre-pandemic level of IDR 24 trillion in March 2020.

"So this (March 2023 dividend) of IDR 4.6 trillion is a fairly high increase but we also hope that the dividends from SOEs will recover as before COVID-19," he said.

For information, dividends are KDN that are included in Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) in the APBN.

Meanwhile, until last month the realization of PNBP had reached IDR 142.7 trillion. This figure is equivalent to 32 percent of the overall target this year of IDR 441.4 trillion.