BIIIBRAs Pet
After twice getting recapitalization funds, BII goes begging to IBRA for more. And BII is getting it: a rights issue plan worth Rp3.975 trillion. Its old owners are suspected of masterminding the plan.
April 2, 2002
When Kwik Kian Gie predicted that Destruction Phase II will befall the Indonesian banking sector, its main cause may very well be Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII). When it was first recapitalized in 1999, its coffers received an injection of Rp7.61 trillion from the government. But that only lasted one year because Asia Pulp & Paper Co.a subsidiary of the Sinar Mas Groupwas mired in a bad debt to the tune of US$13 billion. It turned out that U
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