BRI Realize KUR IDR 5.41 Trillion In Palembang

Photo: Doc. Antara

JAKARTA - PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk distributed People's Business Credit reaching Rp5.41 trillion until mid-September 2022, most of which were absorbed by the agricultural sector.

Regional Office CEO BRI Palembang Wahyudi Darmawan in Palembang, Saturday, September 17, said he was optimistic that he would be able to achieve the target of a total of IDR 7.76 trillion by the end of the year because the community's economy had recovered after being affected by the pandemic.

"When compared to this year, there was a growth of around 13 percent," he said, quoted from Antara.

He said the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector was the main target in distributing KUR.

In addition to low-interesting, financing through this KUR program is proven to be able to make MSMEs 'tier up', in the sense that it can increase market share and turnover.

Currently, MSMEs engaged in culinary, craft, and fashion fields are quite promising to continue to grow in the future.

As a state-owned bank, BRI, known as a leader for MSME financing, feels that it is a moral responsibility to make MSME players advance to class.

For this reason, BRI has various efforts, such as providing training, escorting in the incubation program, building business clusters, and providing low-interest capital through the People's Business Credit program. Even BRI also distributes ultra micro credit funding through the PNM and Pegadaian channels.

So far, from the credit portfolio distributed by BRI, it is known that BRI provides a portion of up to 80 percent for MSME actors.

In the BRI Palembang Region, there are currently 6.5 million customers from MSMEs. Of this total, 501 people have accessed financing, most of which are from the agricultural sector.