The pilot project will be launched in North Sumatra, South Sumatra, East Java, Central Java, East Kalimantan and Bali.Medan, N Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Bank Indonesia said it will start introducing transactions with electronic money (e-money) system of payments next month.
"The launch of the program and product of financial inclusion, payments with e-money system will begin as experiment in six provinces including North Sumatra," Communication Division Director of Bank Indonesia Peter Yakub said here on Thursday.
The pilot project will also be launched in South Sumatra, East Java, Central Java, East Kalimantan and Bali, Peter said.
The program and product of financial inclusion will make it easier in doing transactions and minimize financial crime and circulation of counterfeited money, he said.
He said crimes in the financial sector are growing such as in money counterfeiting.
Until March 2013, fake money worth Rp29.265 million were found in North Sumatra alone, he cited
He said in the launch of the e-money program would begin in cooperation with three cellular phone operators - Telkomsel, Indosat and XL.
Meanwhile, Bank Indonesia is conducting socialization to introduce the program to the public and seeking to reduce possibility of crime in the use of the system.
Bank Indonesia`s deputy director of Area IX,Mikael Budisatrio, said socialization would be intensified including among the traders.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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