BSI Prepares IDR 12.2 Trillion In Cash For Year-End Holiday Momentum

BSI (Photo: dock. Antara)

JAKARTA - PT Bank Syariah Indonesia Tbk (BSI) is ready to facilitate the needs of public financial transactions, which are projected to increase towards the end of the year.

During the period 22 December 2023 to 3 January 2024, BSI prepared cash of Rp12.2 trillion for needs towards the end of the year and New Year's moments.

Deputy President Director of BSI Bob Tyasika Ananta said that towards the end of the year the company will optimize all its services, both e-channel-based services such as ATMs and BSI Mobile as well as physical services at branch offices.

The year-end is one of the periods with higher transaction traffic than usual. Therefore, preparations towards the end of the year, BSI will optimize existing services. We also ensure the availability of cash funds, especially for ATM machines in order to provide excellent service for 24 hours in meeting customer needs," said Bob in an official statement, Wednesday, December 20.

Bob added that the amount of cash allocated by BSI had been adjusted to the projected increase in ATM cash filling by 17.5 percent to Rp2.7 trillion. Or estimated at around Rp225 billion in daily cash transactions per day in the period 22 December 2023 to 2 January 2024.

"We estimate that the peak of cash transactions will occur in the last two weeks towards the end of 2023 until the beginning of 2024, which is a holiday period, for which we optimize services both offline at limited service offices and e-channels (ATM, BSI Net, BSI Mobile, BSI Smart) and other services to serve and reach customers. said Bob. As many as 484 BSI branch offices will continue to operate on a limited basis from 08.00-14.00 local time during the period 23 December 2023 - 1 January 2024. Our operational location selection is focused on the Main Branch Office, especially in locations - strategic locations.

Currently, BSI has more than 1,100 branch offices, 2,559 ATM machines and provides cash withdrawal transaction services through collaboration with Indomaret and Alfamart outlets throughout Indonesia. The public can easily access information related to services through the official BSI channel at www.bankbsi.co.id.

In addition, for areas far from the ATM location, BSI has more than 92 thousand BSI Smart Agents spread across various parts of Indonesia which are BSI's extensions in helping customers to make financial transactions easier, such as withdrawals and cash deposits, transfers between BSI accounts and other banks, PLN payments, BPJS payments, as well as credit purchases and so on.

The company also continues to urge the public to always be careful and vigilant by not providing personal data, PIN, OTP, or other important documents to individuals on behalf of BSI.