Financial Services Authority, March 2014: This Indonesian Banking Booklet (BPI) 2014 constitutes a publication media presenting brief information concerning Indonesian banking. From this booklet, it is expected that the readers obtain brief information on the direction of banking policies 2014 as well as banking regulations issued by Bank Indonesia (BI) during year 2013.

Information presented on this Booklet among others are concerning transfer of functions, duties and authorities of regulation and supervision of financial service activities in the banking sector from the previous banking authority namely BI to the Financial Service Authority (OJK) as of 31 December 2013, information on cooperation and coordination in the context of duties implementation of BI and OJK, as well as the direction of OJK policy and the new regulations, among others: (a) business activities and office networks of Sharia Bank (BUS) and Sharia Business Unit (UUS) based on core capital; (b) revision of regulations on Rural Banks (BPR) transparency and implementation guidelines on Sharia Supervisory Board-Sharia Rural Banks (DPS-BPRS); and (c) several amendments to other banking regulations.

Banking regulations issued by the previous banking authority (BI) are still applicable provided that they are not in conflict and have not been changed with new regulations issued by OJK. BPI can be downloaded through BI website (www.bi.go.id) and OJK website (www.ojk.go.id).

Regardless of the limited information available in this Indonesian Banking Booklet, we still hope that the information presented can provide optimum benefits to the readers.