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Top 1000 World BanksSeptember 1 2021

A difficult year for Indonesia’s banks

Indonesia’s biggest banks have slipped down the Top 1000 ranking, but some have bucked the trend and posted strong growth in Tier 1 capital.
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Indonesia’s results in the Top 1000 World Banks ranking show that the banks have felt the effects of a difficult year. The country’s banks have slipped down the ranking as they struggled with declines to their Tier 1 capital.

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) is the largest of the 10 Indonesian banks that made it into this year’s Top 1000. While the bank has held steady at the top of the country ranking, it dropped to 131st place in the Top 1000 from 112th in 2020, as its Tier 1 capital declined by 5.73% to $13.4bn. However, BRI expanded its asset base by 5.2%.

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Kimberley Long is the Asia editor at The Banker. She joined from Euromoney, where she spent four years as transaction services editor. She has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Liverpool, and an MA in Print Journalism from the University of Sheffield. Between degrees she spent a year teaching English in Japan as part of the JET Programme.
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