Facilitating QRIS Transactions At 20,000 Indomaret Outlets Owned By Conglomerate Anthony Salim, BNI: Good Business Opportunity

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JAKARTA – PT Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BNI) has reached an agreement with PT Indomarco Prismatama as the parent entity of the Indomaret Group, regarding the Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) non-cash payment facility.

BNI Deputy President Director Adi Sulistyowati hopes that this latest commitment can make it easier for people to carry out daily transactions as well as the company's efforts to develop the banking business.

“Indomaret has 20,000 outlets spread throughout Indonesia and has become one of the top markets selling the needs of all segments of society. This is certainly a good business opportunity,” he said in a written statement quoted on Sunday, August 14.

According to Susi, who is known as Sulistyowati, this joint collaboration is in line with BNI's strategy in expanding the acceptance of non-cash transactions with QRIS in Indonesia.

"We firmly believe that the cooperation that is built can have a more positive impact on the community, BNI and also Indomaret," he said.

On the same occasion, Marketing Director of PT Indomarco Prismatama Darmawi Alie stated that cashless transactions provide many benefits for the community, including minimizing virus transmission through physical media (cash).

"We welcome this invitation to cooperate with BNI. Of course, the joint steps that are built are in accordance with Indomaret's vision and mission, which are easy and economical. For this reason, the convenience of shopping at our outlets will continue to be improved from time to time," he said.

For information, Indomaret is a business entity owned by conglomerate Anthony Salim through PT Indoritel Makmur Internasional Tbk and is a franchise business that has been initiated since 1988. Meanwhile, until July 2022 the number of Indomaret outlets reached 20,365 stores spread across Java, Bali, Lombok, Maluku, Nusa Tenggara. West, East Nusa Tenggara, Sumatra, Batam, Sulawesi, Papua and Kalimantan.

Meanwhile, BNI is known to have facilitated QRIS transactions at 20,500 merchants throughout the archipelago. The state-owned bank said that compared to the first quarter of 2022, there were more than 560,000 QRIS transactions in BNI Mobile Banking.

Meanwhile, in the second quarter of 2022, QRIS transactions increased by 82 percent on an annual basis to more than 1.03 million transactions.