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28 January 2013

SMBCI IS COMMITTED TO SERVE AND EMPOWER INDONESIANS

Mataram, January 26, 2013 – Focusing on serving and empowering the mass market segment, consisting of retirees, micro and small enterprises, as well as productive poor community, Bank SMBCI believes that the Bank's involvement in empowering customers is the key to strong and sustainable business performance. In order to achieve this, Bank SMBCI integrates its social program within its business. The social program is intergrated in the Bank’s daily business activity down to the branch level.

This synergy between business and empowerment is reflected through its Daya program, which is is a group-wide enablement program that is sustainable and measurable; one that empowers the mass market customers. Daya program has three pillars, namely Daya Health and Wellness, Daya Entrepreneurial Capacity Building, and Daya Community Empowerment.

"Bank SMBCI doesn’t only provide financial solutions for our customers, but more than that we strive to improve the capacity of our customers through 'Daya.' We hope this effort is able to give positive contribution upon the improvement of our mass market customers capacity, thus they can live a more meaningful life." Eny Yuliati, Head of Corporate Communications at Bank SMBCI.

In one-year period, the Bank's mass market empowerment 'Daya' program (1 October 2011 - 30 September 2012) has reached 1,053,945 beneficiaries, an increase of 53% over the same period the previous year which recorded 689,475 beneficiaries. So have the amount of activities and training classes held in a 1-year period (1 October 2011 - 30 September 2012) increased 110% from the previous period, from 20,604 to 43,411 activities.

Bank SMBCI's growth is supported by four business units, each of which serves a different market segment. The four business units are; SMBCI Sinaya the funding business unit, SMBCI Purna Bakti, designed specifically to meet the needs of pensioners, SMBCI Mitra Usaha Rakyat that caters to micro and small entrepreneurs, as well as SMBCI Syariah which was set up to serve and empower millions of low-income earning Indonesian families, so they can achieve a better life.

For further information, please contact:

PT Bank SMBC Indonesia Tbk
Andrie Darusman, Communications & Daya Head
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

SMBC Indonesia in brief

PT Bank SMBC Indonesia Tbk (SMBC Indonesia)—formerly PT Bank BTPN Tbk (Bank BTPN)—is a foreign exchange bank resulting from the merger of PT Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional Tbk (BTPN) and PT Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Indonesia in February 2019. Driven by the spirit of "Do Good, Be Great," SMBC Indonesia aims to create more meaningful growth for society through innovative and comprehensive financial solutions centred on meeting customers' needs across various segments. SMBC Indonesia provides products and services such as green financing, products and services for retired customers, for micro, small, and medium enterprise customers, for large national, multinational, and Japanese corporations, wealth management services through Sinaya, as well as digital banking services for digital-savvy communities through Jenius. Additionally, SMBC Indonesia has subsidiaries, including PT Bank BTPN Syariah Tbk, serving customers from productive underprivileged communities, and financing companies PT Oto Multiartha (OTO) for four-wheel vehicles and PT Summit Oto Finance (SOF) for two-wheel vehicles. SMBC Indonesia's commitment to positively and sustainably impacting the broader community is also reflected through Daya. This sustainable and measurable empowerment program offers regular training to enhance personal capabilities and capabilities for a more meaningful life.