The disasters taking place in several areas almost at the same time caused damage to public infrastructure and forced people to flee from their homes, exacerbating the unfavorable situation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Such disaster victims are in dire need of assistance.

In response to the disasters, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) continually provides aid to the victims of natural disasters.

BRI Group, whose subsidiaries include BRI Agro, BRI Syariah, BRI Life, BRI Finance, BRI Insurance, BRI Danareksa Sekuritas, BRI Ventures, BRI Remittance, YBM BRI and PT Prima Karya Sarana Sejahtera (PKSS), has played an active role in providing aid to disaster-affected communities. 

The actions that BRI Group has taken constitute the group’s caring and sincere endeavors to help the people and the country to arise and recover from the difficult times.

BRI corporate secretary Aestika Oryza Gunarto expressed a deep concern over the various disasters and said that BRI would continue to actively participate in helping the victims.

“BRI will continue to collaborate and coordinate with various parties to build a synergy in distributing the aid to the victims of the earthquakes in Majene and Mamuju, floods in several areas in South Kalimantan, in Kota Manado and its surrounding areas [North Sulawesi] and the landslides in Sumedang, West Java. This is a corporate endeavor to help relieve the burden of the people and accelerate the recovery [of the victims] in the post-disaster,” Aestika said. 

BRI’s people engagement

The disasters have led to restricted transportation access and many people fleeing, which prompted employees of BRI Group in West Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and North Sulawesi to go on site to directly engage in distributing thousands of ready-to-eat food packages to the victims.

The thousands of distributed food packages were the early phase of aid, especially in the first several days after the disasters, in which the ready-to-eat food packages were desperately needed by the affected residents.

“Ready-to-eat foods are highly needed because an adequate number of public kitchens and emergency facilities are not available yet and besides, the electricity is cut off, leading to power outages. In distributing [the food packages], we engaged BRI Group people by adhering to the health protocols and keeping the victims safe,” said Aestika.  

After rapidly distributing thousands of the food packages to victims of the disaster in the wake of the earthquakes in West Sulawesi and the floods in South Kalimantan and North Sulawesi, BRI also channeled natural disaster emergency response aid in the form of staple food packages, blankets, tents, medicines and other evacuation needs to the victims.

For the landslide victims in Cimanggung, Sumedang, West Java, BRI also distributed staple food packages and medicines. To accelerate the distribution of the aid from BRI Group, and also to improve the service to the victims and the refugees affected by the disaster, BRI Group built BRI Peduli posts in South Sulawesi (Mamuju and Majene).

Meanwhile in West Kalimantan and North Sulawesi, BRI group set up synergy with other state-owned enterprises (BUMN) and other relevant parties through the formation of BUMN Disaster Taskforce Teams in the respective areas.

“We continue to build synergy with local provincial administrations and other state-owned enterprises to work hand-in-hand to help alleviate the burden of the people affected by the earthquakes,” Aestika added.

In several areas where transportation access and infrastructure/facilities are severely affected by the disaster, BRI keeps operating and providing services in a normal manner.

BRI also provides mobile serves like E-Buzz and Mobile BRI Teras in particular areas that need banking services. Apart from that, the public can also still make transactions normally through BRI e-channels, such as ATMs and CRMs up to BRILink agents. Even in a number of affected areas, BRI is the only bank that provides service for the public.

Keywords: BRI Group, BRI, BRI Peduli, Natural Disaster, Mamuju Earthquake, Majene Earthquake, Kalsel Flood, Sulut Flood and Sumedang Landslides.

Information on BANK BRI can be accessed through bri.co.id

For further information, please contact:

Aestika Oryza Gunarto

Corporate Secretary

Phone:  021-575-1966

Fax. : 021-570-091

E-mail: humas@bri.co.id

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