DENPASAR - The QRIS digital transaction is currently a primadona in Bali. However, the Bali Provincial Office of the Bank Indonesia (BI) continues to increase the provision of cash for the 2025 Christmas and New Year 2026 holiday season to Rp. 2.9 trillion.
"The provision of cash increased by 3.57 percent compared to 2024," said Head of BI Bali Representative Erwin Soeriadimadja in Denpasar, Bali, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, December 20.
According to him, the provision of cash is to anticipate a surge in the need for money (paper and metal) ahead of the long holiday momentum.
The representative central bank in Bali guarantees that the community's money needs are available in sufficient quantities, appropriate denominations, on time, and in a condition suitable for distribution.
He explained that the provision of cash was made by considering the optimism of Bali's economic growth which continued to grow in the fourth quarter of 2025 during the momentum of the long Christmas and New Year 2025 holidays.
Even so, his party accelerated non-cash transactions, with a focus on strengthening infrastructure, educating the public, and increasing the comfort of tourists.
Until October 2025, he said, the volume of digital non-cash transactions of Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) in Bali has reached 134.59 million with the number of outlets and users both reaching 1.05 million.
With this realization, he continued, it reflects the increasing adoption of non-cash payments in the economic activities of the people of Bali.
On the other hand, his party also intensified the exchange of money through mobile cash, including partnering with banks.
Throughout December 2025, he continued, the money exchange service was carried out at a number of points in Jembrana Regency with a realization of exchange reaching IDR 945 million.
Furthermore, interpreting Christmas 2025, the central bank in Bali also expanded its money exchange services with mobile cash on the spot at places of worship, educational institutions and other strategic locations.
Meanwhile, the realization of money exchange at three educational institutions in Denpasar on December 9-11, 2025, amounted to Rp. 400 million.
In providing services to exchange damaged money, defective money, and money withdrawn from circulation, the public can also make a money exchange order through the website www.pintar.bi.go.id.
He also invited the public to maintain and appreciate the rupiah by not folding, not stepping on, not squeezing, not scribbling and not in a wet state.
"We also appeal to the public to always be careful in cash transactions by believing in the authenticity of rupiah money through 3D or seen, touched, and thought about," he added.
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