Minggu, 27 Maret 2016

Tugas 1 [Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2]

Mencari Kalimat Conditional Sentence (if-clause) mengenai perbankan atau perekonomian di indonesia dari berbagai artikel berita:

1.    If they join the effort, they can utilize zakat and sadaqah more to enhance the economy.      *Kalimat Tipe 1
Terjemahan:
Jika mereka ikut berusaha, mereka dapat menggunakan zakat dan sadaqah lebih untuk meningkatkan ekonomi.

2.    If the legal basis is agreed upon then the Finance Ministry will be ready to disburse the funds for the Indonesia Terang program.                                         *Kalimat Tipe 1
Terjemahan:
Jika dasar hukum disepakati, maka kementrian keuangan akan siap mengeluarkan dana untuk program indonesia terang

3.      If Bank Mandiri wins an infrastructure project, we will join in the financing.
*Kalimat Tipe 1
Terjemahan:
Jika bank mandiri memenangkan proyek infrastruktur, kami akan bergabung dalm pembiayaan.

4.      If the government maintains the availability of food supplies, we will see full-year inflation stable, even lower than currently estimated.                      *Kalimat Tipe 1
Terjemahan:
Jika pemerintah mempertahankan ketersediaan pasokan pangan, kita akan melihat inflasi setahun penuh stabil, bahkan lebih rendah dari perkiraan saat ini.

5.      If rice stocks are under control, March inflation will hopefully be benign as well.
*Kalimat Tipe 1
Terjemahan:
Jika persediaan beras dibawh pengawasan, inflasi maret mudah-mudahan berjalan lancar.

6.      If fuel prices are adjusted or if there is an adjustment in transportation tariffs, core inflation and volatile food inflation will surely be affected.                     *Kalimat Tipe 1
Terjemahan:

Jika harga BBM disesuaikan atau jika ada penyesuaian tarif transportasi, pokok inflasi dan inflasi makanan pasti akan terpengaruh.




Disbursal Programs Deter Islamic Finance Growth IDB
Islamic financial institutions work separately in Indonesia, making their growth relatively stagnant compared to similar institutions in other countries despite the potential posed by serving the world's largest Muslim population.
The growth of sharia finance in Indonesia is stagnant at 4.8 to 4.9 percent yearly. It has never reached above 5 percent. Thus, Islamic-based financial institutions in Indonesia are relatively small and seen as being second rate compared to conventional financial institutions.
"It affects [fund] collection and distribution despite it being a potentially big market. It makes the cost of funds at sharia banks higher than that at conventional banks," Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Indonesia country director Ibrahim Shoukry told thejakartapost.com in Jakarta on Saturday.
Usually, a sharia institution functions only as an extension of a conventional bank, he said, and therefore the infrastructure and human resource were usually not as strong as those in its parent company.
Ibrahim voiced support for the government’s initiative to merge state-owned Islamic banks to expand their collection and distribution. “A bigger bank could attract bigger investors and play a bigger role in financing, such as in issuing bigger sukuk," Ibrahim continued.
The same principle could be applied to zakat (mandatory alms) andsadaqah (charity) distribution institutions. There are many professionals that disburse funds, such as Dompet Dhuafa, LAZIZMU (under Muhammadiyah) and the PKPU (under Nahdlatul Ulama) and semi-professionals.
"People are comfortable making donations through people they can trust. If they join the effort, they can utilize zakat and sadaqah more to enhance the economy," Ibrahim said. (ags)




OJK Gains Wider Access to Australia
The government will facilitate state-owned companies to develop electricity infrastructure in several remote areas across the country and provide as many as 12,659 villages with access to electricity.
Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said said in two weeks his ministry would coordinate with local administrations to setup task forces for the program Indonesia Terang (Bright Indonesia) program.
Electricity infrastructure development in remote villages and border areas has long been considered unfeasible economically, leaving many investors uninterested.
Lack of human resources, funding and geographic location are factors that mean these villages, 65 percent of which are located in six provinces in eastern Indonesia, are without access to electricity.
“The fact is, if electricity can be accessed in these villages then there will be local economic growth. Local businesses will thrive and the people’s and the country’s income will also rise,” Sudirman said in a statement on Tuesday.
“So this can become an even wider economic movement.”
The ministry has mulled over several possible schemes in order to implement the program and close the economic gap, including providing infrastructure, a feed-in tariff (FIT) and subsidized prices.
To date, the country has a total installed power-plant capacity of about 55,000 megawatts (MW).
The electrification ratio stood at 88 percent as of the end of last year. However, there are numerous areas, particularly outside of Java, with lower ratios and frequent blackouts as the demand is higher than the available capacity.
There are several developments that the government has been pushing in order to fulfil its ambitious program to supply an additional 35,000 MW of electricity within five years.
Sudirman added that in the past decade the state had spent Rp 2,600 trillion (US$197.15 billion) of state funds in the form of subsidized fuel, That funding had been completely consumed, polluted the environment and increased the need for imports, he said.
The Indonesia Terang program is expected to only need to use 10 percent of the available subsidized budget. This funding will be used for renewable energy, in accordance with government regulation No. 79/2014 on National Energy Policy (KEN) which stipulates that renewable energy should make up 23 percent of the primary energy source by 2025.
Meanwhile, Deputy Finance Minister Mardiasmo said there were three schemes that could potentially help fund the Indonesia Terang program: specific allocation funding for the energy sector, funding for oil and gas or the village funds.
“The use of those funds requires a legal basis in the form of the State Budget Law, which can be inserted in the revised state budget,” he said.
If the legal basis is agreed upon then the Finance Ministry will be ready to disburse the funds for the Indonesia Terang program.”




Bank Syariah Mandiri Recovers Profit Through Restructuring

A bank officer talks to a customer at a Bank Syariah Mandiri branch in Central Jakarta recently. The biggest lender by assets in the country has managed to recover its 2015 profits after restructuring its non-performing financing.(The Jakarta Post/Jerry Adiguna)
Amid a high non-performing financing (NPF) ratio, Bank Syariah Mandiri (BSM) has recovered performance, translating to an increase in its net income to Rp 290 billion (US$22 million) in 2015.
President director Agus Sudianto acknowledged that the lender experienced poor performance in 2014 as its net income dropped to only Rp 72 billion. Burdened by bad financing, its margin was slashed by 8 percent.
However, he continued, the biggest Islamic bank in Indonesia by assets has restructured many of its non-performing loans and made Rp 423 billion in cash recovery. The margin grew 16.23 percent, from 2014 to 2015.
"The loan restructuring is to get the bank ready for the 2016-2020 corporate plan. We accomplished the change in 2015. The Rp 423 billion cash recovery also exceeded our target of Rp 400 billion," Agus said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
At the same time, he further said, the company prevented the cost of human resources from ballooning through its efficiency program, with costs growing only by 0.74 percent. It was significantly lower than to the 14 percent increase in 2014.
Director of finance Agus Dwi Handaya explained that microfinance registered an outstanding performance with a 54 percent increase in 2015 to Rp 3.5 trillion. For 2016, the bank aimed for more microfinancing through its branchless banking service to reach remote areas, aside from infrastructure financing.
"Since the government funds the infrastructure, then it is relatively safe. But, we will follow our parent company [Bank Mandiri]. If Bank Mandiri wins an infrastructure project, we will join in the financing," Dwi told thejakartapost.com. (ags)(+)




Low inflation estimated for 2016
Economists expect that consumer prices will fall to the low or middle range of the central bank’s target this year thanks to the oil price slump, manageable food prices and a stable rupiah.
Economists contacted by The Jakarta Post forecast a range of 3.5 to 4.5 percent for the annual headline inflation rate, well within the central bank’s 3 to 5 percent target range. Low inflation is expected to boost people’s purchasing power amid a domestic economic slowdown.
Bank Indonesia (BI) tries to estimate inflation as part of its policy to stabilize the rupiah. It has cut the nation’s benchmark rate by 50 basis points in two policy meetings this year, and many have said that subdued inflation provides room for further rate cuts to stoke growth in the country’s slowing economy.
The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported Tuesday that Indonesia saw 0.09 percent deflation in February, bringing the year-to-date inflation rate to 0.42 percent and year-on-year figure to 4.42 percent.
Bank Mandiri economist Andry Asmoro said that full-year inflation would most likely orbit around the low range of 4.2 percent to 4.5 percent, also below the 4.7 percent forecast set by the government within the 2016 state budget, backed by price cuts in several components such as food and energy, both of which make up a significant portion in the overall inflation rate.
“The government seems to be doing quite well now in distributing food. Distribution, as you know, is key for controlling prices in Indonesia,” Andry added. Food materials make up for the biggest contributor to inflation, BPS data shows.
According to last year’s statistics, the list of contributors to inflation was dominated by food materials such as rice, shallots, broiler chicken, fresh fish and garlic.
Their prices have been known to skyrocket at times due to insufficient domestic supply, forcing the government to import those materials.
In January, for instance, imports of cereal jumped 35.2 percent on a monthly basis and 86.3 percent on annual basis.
Kenta Institute economist Eric Sugandi attributed imports as the reason behind falling food prices, which in February posted 0.58 percent deflation month-to-month.
If the government maintains the availability of food supplies, we will see full-year inflation stable, even lower than currently estimated,” Eric said, setting his own forecast at 3.5 percent to 4 percent for 2016.
In terms of energy, both economists said that the recent fuel and electricity price cuts had led to quite significant deflation for the past two months against the backdrop of falling global oil prices.
State electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) and state-run oil and gas firm PT Pertamina announced Tuesday that they would cut down prices further because of the stable exchange rate and low global oil prices.
“I suspect energy prices will remain low throughout the year because no significant uptick will be seen in global oil prices in the near future,” said Eric.
Bank Central Asia (BCA) chief economist David Sumual said that inflation should remain subdued as the country entered rice harvest months, especially as oil prices remained weak and the rupiah stayed stable.
However, higher inflation is expected in March, when infrastructure projects will start to create multiplier effects across various economic sectors, said BPS deputy head of distribution and service statistics Sasmito Hadi Wibowo.
“These projects can keep economic activity going and pump up people’s purchasing power,” he added.




BI sees Consumer Prices Falling in February
Bank Indonesia (BI) expects the consumer price index (CPI) to fall by around 0.13 percent in the course of February due to decreasing food prices. Meanwhile, year-on-year inflation is predicted to sit at 4.38 percent.
BI executive director Juda Agung said that according to the latest survey conducted by the central bank, the expected monthly deflation in February was driven by lower prices of staple commodities.
"Several goods that recorded steeply rising prices in January have [become cheaper] in February. The decline in electricity prices has also taken effect. If rice stocks are under control, March inflation will hopefully be benign as well," he said in Jakarta on Friday.
Juda explained that February usually saw relatively low inflation due to seasonal factors. Assuming that there were no policies affecting public goods such, as fuel price changes, the first quarter of the year would typically score relatively low inflation.
Despite the late rice-planting season from March to April, he assumed that inflation could be maintained at moderate levels, as long as rice stocks were under control. "So, we must be concerned about the stock issue," Juda said.
He further explained that the central bank projected full-year inflation to fall to 4 percent in 2016, driven by the plunge in oil prices to US$37 per barrel. The fuel price adjustment would help keep inflation at a low level.
"If fuel prices are adjusted or if there is an adjustment in transportation tariffs, core inflation and volatile food inflation will surely be affected," he explained, adding that the new estimate was lower than the 4.7 percent inflation assumption in the 2016 state budget. (ags)