Head of the Bureau of BUMD, Investment and Development Administration (BIA) of the West Java Regional Secretariat, Lusi Lesminingwati, revealed that currently the government is making efforts to accelerate the business of nine companies in Financial Institutions.
In fact, one of them will be closed and is just waiting for regulations from the Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (Permendagri).
Likewise with several companies that are included in financial institution companies. Of the 15 BPR (Rural Bank) institutions, 11 of them are being encouraged to merge.
“Actually, out of 41 BUMD (companies), there are 9 NLK (non-financial institutions), one of which we will close just waiting for the regulations from the Permendagri. While the other 8 we (are) encouraging the acceleration of their business because the problem of this non-financial institution (BUMD company) is Cash Flow,” said Lusi when exposing the condition of BUMD Jabar to Koran Gala.
Lusi admitted that one of the hardest homework for the provincial government is currently in microfinance institutions (MFIs) because besides being slow, the dividend contribution from BPRs is still relatively small.
“Indeed, in the future we are doing mergers for these 15 BPRs, although 4 of them are not in West Java but in the Banten Provincial Government. So we will encourage 11 to merge, while the other 4 we will try to sell our shares to the Banten Provincial Government,” he said.
“Our hope is that by merging these BPRs, the business, scale will be bigger and in the end the dividends we receive will be higher,” she continued.
Lusi admitted that BUMDs should be able to encourage the acceleration of development so that her party needs to improve the condition of BUMD companies in West Java.
“Now related to the two that are really productive out of 41, the ones that dominate the contribution of dividends to the West Java Provincial Government are BJB and PT Migas Utama Jabar (MUJ),” he said.
Regarding one of the BUMD companies that will be closed by West Java Province this year, Lusi revealed that one of them is PD Agribusiness and Mining (AP), even the remaining assets in the BUMD company have been inventoried for the name to be returned to the West Java Provincial Government.
“The asset data is already there, we are just waiting for the Permendagrinya and the mechanism, which is certain that the assets should not be lost,” he said.**