BRI President Director Achievement The Asian Bankers Leadership Achievement Award

BRI President Director Sunarso (Photo: Doc. BRI)

JAKARTA - President Director (Director) of PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk. (BRI) Sunarso is said to have received the Leadership Achievement award from The Asian Banker.

This award assesses the performance of leaders of financial services institutions in the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa regions which have started in 2004. Meanwhile, Sunarso is considered capable of leading the company with a strong vision, and is well communicated and able to inspire the management team.

Sunarso himself revealed that this achievement was dedicated to all BRI personnel who have served the community, especially business actors in the MSME sector, as well as their best performance and contribution to the company.

"The task of a leader is to motivate them to make the best contribution. So all workers must be able to design and plan their own success, the company's job is to provide fields to compete and work healthyly, which in the end everyone is able to bring out their best potential," he said in a press statement, Monday, January 16.

According to Sunarso, the company was able to get through the difficult times due to the COVID-19 pandemic with brilliant performance. Not only that, he also claims that BRI is also increasingly focused on core business in the MSME sector and has succeeded in creating new sources of growth to grow sustainably.

The appropriate BRI response strategy in optimizing business performance in the midst of the turmoil in global economic dynamics and COVID-19 is also the reason The Asian Banker named BRI as Best Managed Bank," he said.

On the same occasion, Chairman of The Asian Banker Alain Chevalier stated that Sunarso during the assessment period had led BRI with a strong commitment to develop MSMEs.

With the sharpened vision of becoming The Most Valuable Banking Group in Southeast Asia and the 2025 Champion of Financial Inclusion, BRI has shown a sustainable commitment to support the MSME sector which has contributed to Indonesia's economic resilience. BRI's MSME loan proportion continues to increase consistently," he said.

For information, BRI Group's performance until September 2022 recorded a net profit of IDR 39.3 trillion or an increase of 106.1 percent year on year (yoy) with total assets of IDR 1,684.6 trillion.

From credit, it was recorded that the funds disbursed were IDR 1,111.4 trillion or grew 7.9 percent. In particular, BRI's MSME credit portfolio recorded an increase from IDR 852.1 trillion at the end of September 2021 to IDR 935.8 trillion at the end of September 2022.

This makes the proportion of MSME loans compared to BRI's total credit continue to increase to 84.2 percent