Are You A Millennial? Vice President Ma'ruf Amin Suggests Using Sharia Banking

JAKARTA - Vice President (Vice President) Ma'ruf Amin encourages Indonesian millennials to use Islamic banking to support economic growth and Islamic finance nationally. ," said Vice President Ma'ruf Amin while delivering a keynote speech at the online event The Future Banking: Achieving Financial Inclusion in Indonesia quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 7. The large population of the current millennial generation in Indonesia, he said, is a resource that can increase economic growth and Islamic finance. The percentage of the population of Generation Z in Indonesia, which reaches 27.94 percent and the millennial generation at 25.87 percent, must currently be According to Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, the two generations are used by Islamic banking players to attract customers in that circle, said Vice President. The two generations, according to Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, tend to have a great interest in choosing a lifestyle that is in accordance with their religion and beliefs. This is supported by Inventure Knowledge research in 2020. about Millennial Muslim Megashifts, which concludes that young people who are familiar with Islamic banking now dominate Gen-Si. "In addition to being internet literate from an early age, this generation also tends to have a great interest in choosing a lifestyle that is in accordance with their religion and beliefs," said the Vice President. Ma'ruf Amin.

The vice president said the market share of Islamic banking has increased, although not too high. In 2017 the increase in the Islamic banking market reached 5.7 percent and increased to 6.5 percent in 2020 from the total national banking. This figure, continued Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, shows that there is still ample room for Indonesia to develop Islamic banking.