BSI: Sustainable Financial Financing Achieves IDR 51.15 Trillion

Director of Compliance and Human Capital BSI Tribuana Tungggadewi. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - PT Bank Syariah Indonesia Tbk (BSI) disbursed sustainable financial financing until December 2022 reaching IDR 51.15 trillion or 24.63 percent of BSI's total financing of IDR 207.7 trillion.

"BSI also plays an active role in the implementation of sustainable finance. As of December 2022, BSI has distributed sustainable financial financing with a value of Rp. 51.15 trillion," said Director of Compliance and Human Capital BSI Tribuana Tungggadewi during a press conference at the BSI 4th Quarter Performance Exposure, quoted from Antara, Thursday, February 2.

The sustainable financial financing is a form of implementation of ESG or environmental principles (environmentals), social (social), and governance as a mission to support Indonesia's sustainable economic growth.

In addition, Tribuana said BSI also carried out green activities throughout 2022 with several programs, including the construction of a BSI building with a green building concept in Aceh and the provision of plastic recycling machines.

With the provision of a bottle exchange machine or reverse controlling machine, BSI has converted 134,166 plastic bottles and helped reduce carbon emissions by 9,257,446 grams.

BSI consistently builds a comprehensive sharia business ecosystem from upstream to downstream, so that it can become a solid unit and continue to grow quality. Furthermore, BSI also distributed zakat funds for the progress program of poor people amounting to Rp. 141 billion.

The bank also continues to optimize the potential for the development of a domestic Islamic ecosystem, starting from improving Islamic financial literacy, targeting the zakat, infaq, alms and waqf (Ziswaf) ecosystem, mosques, education, health and other manufacturing industries.

BSI also distributed corporate social responsibility funds (CSR) until December 2022 amounting to Rp200.2 billion.

The CSR funds are used for a number of activities, including the BSI Village Program with 13 villages in 12 provinces with 1,251 beneficiaries, construction of mosques, scholarship programs and disaster assistance programs for the West Sumatra earthquake, Cianjur, and floods in North Aceh.