02 Nov 2021
Bank Indonesia Issues New Regulation to Boost Quality of Customer Services
In early September, the central bank, Bank Indonesia (“BI”), issued a new regulation (“PBI 23/2021”[1]) to deliver more easily accessible and better integrated services to its customers.
BI customers include the Ministry of Finance, other central government institutions; local governments; non-bank state-owned enterprises; international financial institutions; foreign central banks; commercial banks; clearing and/or settlement institutions; depository and settlement institutions; securities companies; the Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK); the Indonesian Deposit Insurance Corporation (LPS); brokerage companies that operate in the money and foreign exchange markets; non-bank payment service providers engaged in remittance services provision, etc.
A. BI Services
In essence, PBI 23/2021 differentiates between 2 types of BI service:
1. Central Bank Services
2. Membership Services
We will now discuss each of these in greater detail.
1. Central Bank Services
These services are provided by BI to customers in order to support it in fulfilling its monetary and macro-prudential responsibilities, and in relation to payment-system and rupiah money management (Central Bank Services / “CBS”). These are further subdivided into 4 categories:
2. Membership Services
BI also provides customer and data management services in relation to its financial market infrastructure and payments system. These are known as Membership Services / “MS” (as customers are essentially required to register as members before they can access the services).
MS involve the management of member data, which comprises a member’s name, address, the name of its principal or proxy/attorney, specimen signatures, and other member data. MS are provided through the following BI systems:
B. Customer Criteria
To be able to access CBS or MS, customers must satisfy the following criteria:
C. BI Services Platform
PBI 23/2021 requires BI to provide a secure online platform (the BI Services Application / “BISA”) to be used by customers when accessing services or changing profile information. This will be a new centralized system that should help to make things significantly more straightforward for customers when accessing services.
D. ABNR Commentary
PBI 23/2021 is aimed at strengthening the effectiveness and accessibility of BI’s customer management and customer business services. The introduction of BISA, in particular, should go quite a way towards achieving this goal. Of course, as is only to be expected of a prudential regulation authority, BI is quite demanding when it comes to the information that should be provided and criteria that must be fulfilled by customers when accessing services. Unfortunately, however, “demanding” can sometimes verge on “unnecessarily onerous” if every effort is not made to eliminate superfluous requirements. It is to be hoped, therefore, that things will be kept as straightforward as possible so as to facilitate BI’s customers when using BISA.
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[1] BI Regulation No. 23/15/PBI/2021 on Central Bank Services, as further detailed in Board of Governors Regulation No. 23/18/PADG/2021 on the Implementation of Central Bank Services – Peraturan Bank Indonesia Nomor 23/15/PBI/2021 tentang Layanan Kebanksentralan yang diatur lebih lanjut dengan Peraturan Dewan Gubernur No. 23/18/PADG/2021 tentang Pelaksanaan Peraturan Layanan Kebanksentralan.