INDONESIA - BANKING - BRI Syariah focus on small economy

www.investor.co.id - JAKARTA-Bank intends to encourage BRISyariah lower middle-class economy with a range of services according to customers' needs.
"We want to always lift the economy down people by supporting their efforts in order to grow," said Director of PT. Bank BRISyariah Moch. Hadi Santoso, BRISyariah Headquarters, Jakarta, Thursday (9/8).
Hadi explained that it had teamed up to deliver small loans to cooperatives and BMT are spread throughout Indonesia.
He admitted that in a way that facilitates SMEs to manage their funds either in the form of deposits or loans.  (source)

INDONESIA - BANKING - BNI Syariah Open 10 New Branch Offices

WWW.REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Bank ready to add 10 branches during 2012. The network expansion will also be supported by 60 branch offices (KCP).

Director of BNI Syariah, Rizqullah, said the targeted tissue expansion could increase Fund Party When (TPF) as much as Rp 2.9 trillion during 2012.

In 2011, BNI Syariah managed to raise cheap funds to $ 3.5 trillion. "The opening of KCP and branch offices will still be added 55 micro units," he said, Wednesday (14/3). (source)

INDONESIA - BANKING - BNI Syariah Micro To Open 50 stalls

www.bisnis.com - JAKARTA: PT Bank Negara Indonesia Syariah plans to open 50 outlets this year micro, add five outlets that have been launched in mid-January.

"We have launched a five outlets in the area of micro Depok and Bogor in mid-January. This year we plan to open a new outlet to total 55 units, "said Bambang Widjanarko BNI Syariah Business Director, the Business today. Sunday February 5, 2012 (source)

INDONESIA - GOLD PAWN - BRI Syariah Revises Gold Pawn Portfolio

www.indonesiafinancetoday.com - BRI Syariah is targeting growth in financing of about 53 percent to Rp 14 trillion. (IFT/DINUL MUBAROK)

JAKARTA (IFT) - PT BRI Syariah will be revising the distribution of gold mortgage financing this year, according to bank directors. The company will divert the focus from consumer loans to small and medium enterprise and micro finance sectors. (source)

INDONESIA - BANKING - Consumer Financing in BRI Syariah Dominate

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA --- Financing for consumer financing portfolio is still dominating in BRISyariah. Distribution of consumer financing until September 2011 this had reached Rp 3.5 trillion.

Of portfolio financing of Rp 8 trillion, the portion of consumer finance to more than 40 percent. It is still dominated by the Home Ownership Financing (PPR) with a share around 40 percent. "We temporarily focus on housing finance," said Director of Retail BRI Syariah, Khaerullah, yesterday.  (source)

CONFERENCE - Jan 2011 - Tawhidi applied to micro enterprise development

8th International Conference On Tawhidi Methodology Applied To Microenterprise Development at Islamic Economics and Finance

This conference follows from a series of seven earlier conferences that pursued the same theme. The theme is to extract scientific methodology from the epistemology of the Tawhidi worldview (oneness of the divine law) and examine its integrated (unified) nature of application in diverse Islamic issues.