Access to national bank credit by the Indonesian public remains very low. This can be seen from the fact that out of 1,000 adults, only 222, or less than 25 percent, have bank credit accounts. Furthermore, out of 1,000 adults, only 64 have Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) credit accounts.
To increase public access to bank financing, Bank Indonesia is driving down interest rates to single digits. This policy is implemented to make bank credit more affordable for businesses and to further stimulate the economy. The target is for banks to channel 20 percent of their credit to the MSME sector by 2018.
Bank credit as of January 2016 totaled Rp 3,983 trillion, a 9.59 percent increase from January 2015, while MSME credit reached Rp 719 trillion, up 10.1 percent from the same period last year. The number of bank credit account holders reached 50 million, while for MSME credit, it was only 11.9 million accounts.