Bank Indonesia (BI) has received three awards in the The 8th Annual Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Summit and Awards. Two gold awards are for Excellence in Provision of Literacy and Educational Award with market capitalization above US$1 billion and Empowerment of Women Award. While bronze award was achieved for Product Excellence Award.
BI’s Communication Department Director Abronas Hutabarat attended the event to receive the awards. He originally intended to attend the international forum to introduce BI’s CSR programs. “We didn’t expect to receive the awards. These are the result of synergy and hard work put in by my colleagues in BI’s Communication Department,” Abornas said after receiveing the awards in Nusa Dua, Bali, Thursday evening.
Abornas said that BI always made CSR programs on a yearly basis which focus on community empowerment. According to him, BI’s CSR programs are comparable to those of its international counterparts.
There are seven categories in The 8th Annual Global CSR Summit and Awards, namely Best Environmental Excellence Award, Best Community Programme Award, Excellence in Provision of Literacy and Education Award, Empowerment of Women Award, Best Workplace Practice, CSR Leadership Award, and Product Excellence Award.
Of the categories, BI got nominated in 4 categories. Arbonas said the four categories are Best Community Programme Award, Excellence in Provision of Literacy and Education Award, Empowerment of Women Award, and Product Excellence Award.
Arbonas said one of the gold awards were given for BI Corners CSR program, in which BI provides libraries in all universities in Indonesia. Last year BI built 106 BI Corners. This year BI is targeting to build 150 BI Corners. He hoped that in the next five years BI could build 1,000 BI Corners in the all educational levels to support financial literacy. In addition, BI helps female entrepreneurs in managing business units and bookkeeping to make the businesses bankable.
The Annual Global CSR Summit and Awards is the most prestigious recognition awards program for Corporate Social Responsibility of various agencies in Asia. The awards are given to agencies who are able to make contributions to environmental sustainability, product innovation, community empowerment and CSR management and transparency.