How BCA Boss Jahja Setiaatmadja Leads A Bank Owned By The Hartono Brothers Conglomerate To Survive And Grow Amid The Pandemic

President Director of BCA Jahja Setiaatmadja. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - President Director of PT Bank Central Asia (BCA) Tbk Jahja Setiaatmadja has his own way of keeping this bank belonging to the conglomerate Hartono Brothers able to survive and grow in the midst of multi-disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of them is related to flexibility in targeting. According to Jahja, agility or agility of leaders in the era of multi-disruption is very important to be implemented in the aspect of daring to share autonomy or authority.

"These things are very basic, we just need to cultivate them and be supported by digitalization," he said when he was a speaker at the webinar "Decoding Leadership Agility for Stronger Business in New Era, Great Lesson from Indonesia Best CEO 2021" quoted by Antara, Wednesday, February 16.

Jahja also said that collaboration is prioritized over KPIs per division, understanding, and being accustomed to uncertainty.

"In the past, the budget was like the Bible or the holy book. But over time the target and budget had to be flexible because things changed very quickly," said Jahja.

As is known, the bank led by Jahja achieved a profit growth of 15.8 percent on an annual basis (yoy) to IDR 31.4 trillion in 2021.

Credit also grew by 8.2 percent yoy in line with the improving national economy. Jahja revealed that in early 2021, his party predicts BBCA's net profit will only increase by 8 percent throughout the year.

At that time, Jahja was not too optimistic because Indonesia's condition was still shrouded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Then regarding credit, he only predicts a growth of around 6 percent.

"However, at that time it was said that profit was 15.8 percent, credit growth was 8.2 percent, wow, that's my dream," he said in an online discussion, quoted Wednesday, February 9th.