DENPASAR - Bank Indonesia (BI) revealed that the Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) between countries in the Bali region reached Rp1.38 billion in March 2025.
"The visit of foreign tourists in Bali is also a contributor to the high number of QRIS transactions between countries," said Director of the Payment System Policy Department of Bank Indonesia Fitria Irmi Triswati virtually on the sidelines of the Bali Digital Innovation Festival (Baligivation) 2025 in Denpasar, Bali, Wednesday, April 30, reported by ANTARA.
He recorded the volume of QRISantranegara transactions in Bali (inbound) in March 2025 of 6,500 transactions.
However, he did not mention the details of QRIS transactions between countries in Bali in the same period in 2024.
Currently, he continued, the connectivity of QRIS between countries can be carried out with three countries, namely Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
The initiative, he said, would continue to be expanded in a number of other countries.
The goal, Fitria added, is to stimulate the growth of the retail and tourism trade sector, especially the labor-intensive sector.
Specifically for Bali Province, he added, the total number of QRIS users reached 1.09 million with transaction volumes until March 2025 reaching 28 million transactions with a nominal value of IDR 2.74 trillion.
Meanwhile, the number of outlets/business actors using QRIS in Bali reached 959 thousand outlets, 96 percent of whom were micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
Meanwhile, nationally, QRIS transactions until the first quarter of 2025 have reached 56.28 million users and 38.1 million outlets/businesses throughout Indonesia, of which 93 percent are MSMEs.
Meanwhile, the number of transactions reached 2.62 billion transactions with a nominal value of Rp262 trillion.
"So luxury shops to beachfront sellers use QRIS. It is able to expand economic participation from city to village, large to micro business," he said.
Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali Province, the number of foreign tourists in Bali during 2024 reached 6.33 million, an increase of 20.1 percent compared to 2023 which reached 5.27 million.
The tourists from Malaysia and Singapore entered the top 10 foreign tourist visits in Bali in 2024, each reaching 246,000 and 219 thousand people.
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