Citibank Indonesia

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Citibank Indonesia is affiliated with Citibank and offers retail banking in 20 branch offices and 102 ATMs in the cities of Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Medan, Semarang and Denpasar. Citibank also began mobile banking in 2003.[1]

Citibank has had a presence in Indonesia in one form or another since 1918 when its precursor, The International Banking Corporation, set up branches in Batavia (present-day Jakarta) and Surabaya. The International Banking Corporation withdrew from Indonesia in the late 1920s, but Citibank reopened in Jakarta in 1968.

Products and services

The main business of Citibank Indonesia is in the area of wealth management, where it provides financial advisory services to customers. Citibank Indonesia also offers bank loans, deposit accounts and insurance to its customers.

Citibank Indonesia began issuing credit cards in 1989. It currently offers nine types of credit cards. Its payment network in Indonesia consists of more than 11,000 payment points, 13 banks and one post office from which customers can pay their credit card bills.

Organization

Citifinancial has 56 branches in the six major cities of Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Medan, and Denpasar. Since 2007, Citifinancial has been collaborating with PT Pos Indonesia to expand Citifinancial's position in the Indonesian market by leveraging the wide post office distribution.

Key people

Batara Sianturi - Chief Country Officer
Shirish Trivedi - Chief Financial Officer
Yessika Effendi - Citi Compliance Director
Sergio Rodrigo Maza Dominguez - Citi Head of Global Markets
Siddarth Sabherwal - Senior Country Operating Officers
Riko Tasmaya - Citi Global Subsidiaries Group Head
Vincent Soegianto - Citi Transaction Services Head
Gioshia Ralie - Corporate & Investment Banking Head
Pambudi H. T. Soenarsihanto - Country Human Resource Officer

Sponsorship and corporate responsibility

Citibank has launched several CSR activities under the umbrella of Citibank Peka (Peka is an acronym of peduli (care) and berkarya (to do good). Initiated in February 1999, Citibank Peka (CP) focuses on education, communication development and natural disaster relief.[2]

Scandals

(Inong) Malinda Dee, who held the position of senior relationship manager in Citibank Indonesia's Landmark Building branch, was arrested after being accused of embezzling at least USD 2 million from her customers' accounts.[3] On April 6, 2011 the Central Bank (Bank Indonesia) has banned Citibank from taking in new customers for its Citigold business until police investigation into the case is completed.[4]

In an unrelated incident that happened to occur close in time to the previous one, Citibank has also gotten tangled up in the circumstances of the death of Irzen Octa, who served as secretary general of a small local political party. Octa, who had racked up a sizable debt to Citibank, was found dead on the bank's premises after being interrogated by third party debt collectors hired by Citibank to deal with long overdue debts. There are conflicting reports on the circumstances of his death, as multiple autopsy reports have shown different results. Despite this uncertainty, on April 7, 2011, the Indonesian Central Bank (Bank Indonesia) decreed that Citibank must stop processing new credit card applications until the investigation into the death of Irzen Octa has been completed.[5] Due to torture and false imprisonment in relation to Mr. Irzen's death, 5 people, including 2 Citigroup employees have been charged.[6]

Citibank Indonesia's senior management has subsequently been summoned by the local congress (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat) for hearings in relation to the incidents.

After a month of investigation, Indonesian Central Bank (Bank Indonesia) clamps firm sanction on Citibank Indonesia. Since May 6, 2011 Citibank Indonesia:

  • was banned from receiving new customers for its prime Citigold service for one year
  • was banned from issuing new credit cards for its customers for two years
  • was banned from using debt collectors from the third party for two years[7]

Since May 9, 2011 Central bank conducted a repeated fit-and-proper test on about 20 Citibank's executives and management for a maximum 40 days. Central Bank also insisted Citibank to fire the officials involved directly in the Citigold and credit card cases.[8]

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