Cash Free Day At Thamrin 10 Pertegas Jakarta Becomes The Post-IKN Economic Center

Illustration - Public Relations of the DKI Provincial Government/Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government through Bank DKI held an event digital ecosystem event titled Cash Free Day 2022 at Thamrin 10 Food and Creative Park on September 9-11, 2022. Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria said that the implementation of non-cash transactions at Cash Free Day activities emphasized that Jakarta is ready to become the center of the economy after moving the capital city to the archipelago. "Jakarta, which will no longer be the capital city, we are now enforcing Jakarta as a special area for economic centers, business centers, trade centers, and services," said Riza in Thamrin 10, Central Jakarta, Sunday, September 11. Therefore, Riza continued, the DKI Provincial Government has assigned this BUMD in the banking sector to boost digitalization of transactions and the economy. "Bank DKI as a BUMD DKI Jakarta banking does have the task of providing banking financial services in Jakarta by innovating, creativetas, including in the fields of technology, digitizing, which is now the era," he said. Meanwhile, Bank DKI President Director, Fidri Arnaldy, said that his party was carrying out a transformation on the human resource side, especially having to follow the times through non-cash transactions in the JakOne Mobile application. "We make JakOne Mobile superapps, we can also open accounts here. Then, many segments are affected by COVID-19, so transactions use mobile," said Fidri. Furthermore, Fidri views that currently the use of cash or cash is getting less and less with QRIS, so the company also owns JakOne Pay. "Our segment is young people, their next generation, and all of them are digital. To support the role of young people, we hold activities, show bands, and compete in modern dances with beautiful visions, starting from elementary school we enter how about saving, why do we need to save," he said. For information, until the second quarter of 2022, users of the JakOne Mobile application have reached 1.7 million users with a nominal number of transactions reaching Rp9.1 trillion, and the transaction volume reached 10.8 million transactions, followed by QRIS transactions which grew 742 percent (yoy).