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House to summon BI to discuss troubled banks
The House of Representatives' Commission XI on finance and banking is due to summon Bank Indonesia (BI) representatives to discuss numerous issues surrounding four national banks
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he House of Representatives' Commission XI on finance and banking is due to summon Bank Indonesia (BI) representatives to discuss numerous issues surrounding four national banks.
The banks in question are Bank Mega, Bank Panin, Bank Jabar and Banten and Bank Mestika Dharma.
"We want to know more about the problems surrounding these banks," Commission XI deputy chairman Harry Azhar Azis from the Golkar Party said as quoted by kontan.co.id on Monday.
Bank Mega has been found guilty of internal negligence surrounding a Rp 111 billion deposit belonging to oil and gas services company PT Elnusa.
Bank Panin was the target of a Rp 30 billion fraud case at one of its branch offices in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan.
Bank Jabar and Banten has been struggling with a on-performing loan case that could cost the state Rp 55 billion in losses, while Bank Mestika suffered a robbery of Rp 4.5 billion conducted by one of its employees.
Meanwhile, BI Deputy Governor Halim Alamsyah said each of the cases at the banks were under police investigation.
