Rare Moment! An Intermezzo From Sri Mulyani At G20 Bali: Social Responsible Investment With The Acronym SRI, That's My Name

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Finance)

JAKARTA – The important agenda of the G20 meeting often requires delegates to focus their full attention on being able to formulate policies that can encourage the resolution of global problems. This serious attitude is a common thing to find in every Group 20 event.

However, an intermezzo moment was presented by Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani at the Joint G20/OECD Corporate Governance Forum in Bali today, Thursday, July 14.

When delivering his opening speech, the Minister of Finance had the opportunity to provide information about corporate governance programs to carry out social responsibility. He said, one of the sub-themes of the discussion carried the concept of Social Responsible Investment aka SRI.

“Socially Responsible Investment. This abbreviation happens to be S, R, I. That is my name Sri, "he said, which was greeted with laughter from the participants present.

Furthermore, the Minister of Finance explained that the SRI principle is similar to the concept of CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility. According to him, SRI is an investment method that reflects more standardized portfolio asset values.

"This is very relevant so that it can represent action and as a tool to identify ways of good management work," he said.

For information, the Joint G20/OECD Corporate Governance Forum meeting in Bali this week is part of the Finance Track side event of the Third Meeting of the Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors (Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors/3rd FMCBG).