"The government`s target is to increase the people`s access to the KUR scheme in 2012 by adding 13 regional government banks (BPD), for example," the coordinating minister for economic affairs said here on Tuesday.
Hatta made the remarks in a press conference after attending a coordination meeting with Industry Minister MS Hidayat, Cooperative and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Minister Syarief Hasan and other relevant state officials.
The minister said that so far a BPD had been able to provide an average credit allocation of over Rp20 million to small businesses in the retail sector.
The chief economic minister said that the government had set itself a target of providing a KUR credit worth Rp30 trillion in 2012 through a number of executing banks such as Bank BRI, Bank BNI, Bank Mandiri, Bank BTN, Bank Bukopin, Bank Syariah Mandiri and BPD.
"Of the total KUR allocation in 2012, about 50 percent will be channeled to the people by bank BRI, Therefore, we ask Bank BRI to continue to increase the credit extension coverage up to villages in rural areas," Hatta Rajasa said.
(Uu.A014/H-NG)
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