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PT Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk (lit. "State Savings Bank"),
PT Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk (lit. "State Savings Bank"), trading as
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Bank BTN, is an Indonesian commercial bank
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best known as a mortgage bank, headquartered in Gambir, Jakarta.
Founded in 1897 by the government of the Dutch East Indies as a post office savings bank
Post Office Savings Bank is a name used by postal savings systems in several countries, including:
* New Zealand, later renamed the PostBank
* United Kingdom, later renamed the National Savings and Investments
* Singapore, later renamed POSB Bank
* ...
, its products include banks accounts (savings, current, and fixed deposit), loans (personal, business, and mortgage loans—the latter being its most popular offering since its introduction in the 1970s) and Sharia-compliant banking services.
History
Bank Tabungan Negara was established in 1897 as apostal savings
Postal savings systems provide depositors who do not have access to banks a safe and convenient method to save money. Many nations have operated banking systems involving post offices to promote saving money among the poor.
History
In 1861, ...
bank under the name Postspaarbank, with its headquarters located in Batavia. During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia
The Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945. It was one of the most crucial and important periods in modern Indonesian history.
In Ma ...
, the bank was frozen and replaced with the After the proclamation of Indonesian independence, the bank was taken over by the Indonesian government on 9 February 1950 under the Emergency Law No.9 and renamed Bank Tabungan Pos (Postal Savings Bank). In 1963 the bank's current name, Bank Tabungan Negara, was adopted. Bank BTN became the first bank to be appointed by the government to provide housing finance and mortgages to lower and middle income individuals.
The bank underwent a corporate restructure in 2003, which was followed by an initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investme ...
(IPO) in 2009 that led to the listing of Bank BTN on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The IPO was ranked as Indonesia's largest IPO as of 2009.
Operations
Bank Tabungan Negara's operations are divided into six regions;Sumatera
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, Java
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, Bali & Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan
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In 2019, ...
, Sulawesi, and Papua & Maluku. As of December 2014, these regions gave the bank a total of 820 branches, 2,951 post office access points, and 1,830 ATMs, served by 8,582 employees.
Ownership
The stock of Bank Tabungan Negara is listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, where it trades under the symbol BBTN. , shareholding in the bank's stock was as indicated in the table below: Due to being majority held by the Indonesian government, Bank Tabungan Negara is considered to be one of the four state owned banks in Indonesia.Governance
Bank Tabungan Negara is governed by a six-person Board of Commissioners. , Chandra M. Hamzah became the President Commissioner, succeeding Mardiasmo. The President Director is Maryono.See also
* List of banks in Indonesia * Financial Services Authority of IndonesiaReferences
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