BRI Memporat Portofolio Kredit Berkelanjutan Medas Rp695 Triliun

President Director of BRI Sunarso. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk recorded a BRI ESG financing portfolio at the end of December 2022 of IDR 695 trillion, or equivalent to 67.5 percent of the total credit disbursed by BRI.

This figure recorded double digit growth of 13.1 percent on an annual basis (yoy).

BRI President Director Sunarso said this achievement was in line with BRI's desire to become the best Global Bank Leading in terms of ESG implementation.

"This is interesting that in this world now many investors see the aspect of implementing ESG on banks, especially in governance. We ensure that in various programs we will always place ESG as beyond regulation," Sunarso told reporters, Tuesday, February 21.

"We continue to conduct a thorough study in various aspects of BRI's operations on how ESG can be adopted as a whole in terms of credit governance, operations and social society," he continued.

Sunarso detailed that the majority of BRI's ESG financing portfolios were channeled to the MSME sector worth IDR 616.1 trillion, followed by financing to the sector for managing biological natural resources and the use of environmentally friendly land worth IDR 51.8 trillion and financing to the new renewable energy sector worth IDR 7.1 trillion.

One of the clear evidences of the empowerment carried out by BRI is through the village of Bangkasa.

The village is a village empowerment program with the aim of creating a village economy that can grow sustainably through innovation, sustainability, digitization and utilization of the Bumdes. Until the end of 2022, BRI has 2,182 villages throughout Indonesia.

BRI also continues to empower the Ultra Micro ecosystem, which until the end of 2022 recorded 13.9 million women having access to financing through the Mekaar PNM program.

This figure shot up 25.4 percent yoy. Meanwhile, the amount of financing channeled through the Mekaar PNM program reached IDR 35.8 trillion or grew 36.4 percent yoy.

"We are optimistic that BRI's commitment to the implementation of ESG will provide added value for global investors who are currently very concerned about ESG. That BRI can also be the best global leading bank in terms of implementing ESG, especially in terms of social empowerment," concluded Sunarso.