Kaji Pendaftaran Modal Rp26 Miliar, DPRD Banjarmasin Pertanyakan Kejelasan Badan Hukum Bank Kalsel

The Banjarmasin City DPRD Special Committee for the discussion of additional capital participation to PT Bank Kalsel Monday (29/8/2022). Antara/Sukarli

KALSEL - The DPRD of Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan (Kalsel), continues to review to approve additional capital participation of Rp26 billion to Bank Kalsel.

Chairman of Commission II of the Banjarmasin City DPRD, Awan Subarkah, said that his party asked for an investment study on this plan.

"So next discussion, we ask that an investment study or investment advice be presented on this plan from the city government," he said at the city council building, quoted from Antara, Monday, August 29.

This is because his party at the special committee for discussing the Draft Regional Regulation (Raperda) regarding the addition of capital participation of the Banjarmasin City Government to PT Bank Kalsel, must know in detail the investment study.

"This is for our picture of the feasibility of the Banjarmasin City Government providing additional capital participation for Bank Kalsel," he said.

The awan who became the Chair of the Raperda Special Committee also said that his party also asked for clarity on Bank Kalsel's legal entity as a Regional Owned Enterprise (BUMD) of South Kalimantan Province.

"Right now, PT Persero Bank Kalsel, in the new law, it must be changed to PT Perseroda," he said.

Awan said that if these two elements were met, namely related to the investment study and the legal entity of Bank Kalsel, further discussions could be carried out to approve the addition of capital investment by the City Government.

In this Raperda draft, said Awan, the City Government proposed capital participation in three stages, namely, Rp. 8 billion in the 2022 Revised APBD, Rp. 8 billion in the 2023 APBD and more than Rp. 10 billion in the 2024 APBD. To a total of more than Rp. 26 billion.

Currently, he said, the Banjarmasin City Government has included a capital of Rp140 billion to Bank Kalsel from the period 1993 to 2020.

"The dividend or profit distribution from Bank Kalsel is 12 percent or around Rp. 16 billion per year received by the Banjarmasin City Government," said the PKS politician.

The addition of city government funds in the form of capital participation, one of which aims to fulfill the provisions of the Financial Services Authority (OJK), namely the Inti Minimum Capital (MIM) of Bank Kalsel at least Rp. 3 trillion at the end of 2024.