Gemilang Performance, Bank DKI Wins Indonesia Top Bank Awards 2023 And Top Banking CEO 2023

President Director of Bank DKI, Fidri Arnaldy. (Photo: Doc. Bank DKI)

JAKARTA - The brilliant performance achieved by Bank DKI under the command of the President Director, Fidri Arnaldy, was again appreciated by the independent media, with the awarding of two award categories, namely as Top Bank 2023 in Capital > 4 Trillion Category as well as the category of individual awards addressed to the President Director of Bank DKI, Fidri Arnaldy as Top Banking CEO of 2023 at the 4th Indonesia Top Bank Awards 2023 and Indonesia Top Banking CEO 2023 organized by The Iconomics on Tuesday 27 June.

President Director of Bank DKI, Fidri Arnaldy, expressed his gratitude to all stakeholders, especially the support of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government as the controlling shareholder and customer of Bank DKI for the trust given, so that this award as a 'Top Bank' can be accepted by Bank DKI.

"This award is of course a gift from Bank DKI to the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government as a special gift at the moment of the 496th anniversary of DKI Jakarta Province. As a BPD owned by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, Bank DKI will continue to play a role in encouraging the development and economic equalization of the community, especially in DKI Jakarta, "said Fidri, in his statement, Friday, June 30.

Fidri further explained that Bank DKI continues to carry out a series of collaborations with various entities within the chain of economic actors in DKI Jakarta, including in various syndicated loans through collaboration between Bank DKI and Regional Development Banks from all over Indonesia (BPD-SI).

This strategic step continues to be taken by Bank DKI in an effort to realize the Vision of Indonesia Gold 2045 by supporting the success of infrastructure development, the industrial sector, and other sectors that have high growth potential.

Bank DKI acts as a mandated leader arranger who ensures the smoothness and success of the distribution of a number of syndicated loans.

In determining companies and CEOs of the banking industry that are included in Indonesia Top Bank 2023 and Top Banking CEO 2023, The Iconomics together with Axia Research conducted a financial performance assessment from 2021 to 2022, among others, with Profitability and Rehabilitability with Rank ( 40 percent weight) and Growth (60 percent weight) assessments.

According to The Founder & CEO of Iconomics, Bram S. Putro, by using engine media monitoring, The Iconomics research team included all President Directors of Banks in Indonesia. The next step before ranking from the top to the bottom, the team classified the news containing the keywords as the main resource person or companion.

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, who was also present virtually at the event, said Innovation would be a driver of economic growth, a catalyst for achieving welfare and the key to bringing the economy to compete in the midst of a dynamic environment.

Furthermore, Coordinating Minister Airlangga also said that some time ago President Joko Widodo had launched a vision towards Indonesia Gold 2045.

"In welcoming Indonesia's vision of Gold and future changes, we need to work together to encourage the economy through the best innovations and breakthroughs. Innovation can be done starting from the Government, individuals, MSMEs, as well as large corporations," concluded Coordinating Minister Airlangga.

Prior to serving as President Director of Bank DKI, the figure of Fidri Arnaldy had been assigned to various fields, ranging from marketing, both credit and funds, internal audits, operations, to conventional and sharia institutional relations, serving as Regional Leader of Bank BRI to Bank BRI Sharia Retail Business Director.

In his career journey of more than 32 years, he is the figure behind the success of Bank BRI Syariah in implementing digital loans (I Kurma) which is a digital application to process micro financing and stock prices touch the highest number at the level of Rp3,350 and enter the BUKU 3 banking group from the previous BUKU 2 banking group.

Under his leadership, Bank DKI's performance improvement is also growing rapidly and healthy, as reflected in the Bank DKI's 2nd category (Good) Health Level (TKB) for 2 years.

Bank DKI closed 2022 by recording a net profit for the period of IDR 939.11 billion, which is the achievement of the Company's highest profit since its establishment. Profit grew 29.11 percent compared to the December 2021 period of IDR 727.36 billion. Not to mention the achievement of an increase in Bank DKI investment rating by PEFINDO from the previous idAA- (Double A Minus) since 2018 to idAA (Double A) with a stable outlook.

Bank DKI is also increasingly adaptive in the development of digital banking services to expand public financial access such as JakOne Mobile super apps, JakOne Pay simple apps, JakOne Abank and other digital banking services such as Cash Management System, as well as the development of digital lending applications for credit and financing facilities.

In terms of card-based non-cash transaction services, Bank DKI continues to expand JakCard's acceptance as an electronic money card on various modes of transportation for DKI Jakarta, museum entrance tickets and tourist attractions managed by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and BUMD, to transactions at various merchants in collaboration with Bank DKI.

Bank DKI Corporate Secretary, Arie Rinaldi added that the two award categories brought in by Bank DKI were also a motivation for all Bank DKI employees to contribute and improve performance in a sustainable manner.

"The completion of these two award categories further strengthens Bank DKI's commitment to be present as an option bank for the community, by continuing to provide the best service to customers, as well as stakeholders and trying to achieve sustainable performance," concluded Arie.