BANKING - BRI Syariah - Seeking for Human Capital, BRISyariah Joint Force with 11 Universities

Jakarta, (15/10). In order to support its core business, Islamic finance Institutions must synergies with Universities. For that reason, BRISyariah is now joint force with 11 universities in Indonesia, the program is called word banking student academic, it is the program to seek for candidate of shariah human capital which is a training program for 2 months where the training expenses will  be borned by the universities or the student if the student is selected to be the employee of the Islamic bank, all the training expenses will be returned to the universities or the student.

The signing ceremony has taken placed at Balai Kartini Jakarta Selatan, Wednesday (14/15) the name of the universities are: Universitas Gajah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta,  Universitas Indonesia (UI) Jakarta, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Jakarta, Universitas Trisakti Jakarta, STIE  Tazkia, Universitas Pajajaran (Unpad) Bandung, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Institut Koperasi Indonesia (IKOPIN) Bandung, Universitas Negeri Semarang dan Universitas Diponegoro (Undip) Semarang.

The sigining ceremony was witnessed by the shariah Director of Bank Indonesia  Mulya E Siregar, chairman of  Ikatan Ahli Ekonomi Islam Indonesia (IAEI) Mustafa Edwin Nasution and  Masyarakat Ekonomi Syariah (MES) Dr. Syafii Antonio.

Heriyakto S Hartomo, Project Management Office Head BRISyariah said that it is expected this collaboration will simplify the process f recruiting shariah human capital with high standard of professionalism.

In the meantime Mustofa Edwin Nasution, opined that this business model is very good effort since the bankers and the higher education institutions could synergies in solving the lack of human capital, other Islamic banks could follow the lead of BRISyariah.

“This synergy could be expanded by creating product innovation and  by doing research from the existed papers from the shariah expert” exclaimed Mustofa.[gus/nibra]

Source : http://www.pkesinteraktif.com/english/bank/1966-seeking-for-human-capital-brisyariah-joint-force-with-11-universities.html - Oct 15, 2010