Stopping Being an Employee, BRILink Agent Sujana Helps Financial Literacy of Migrants

JAKARTA – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is the backbone of the Indonesian economy. Not only do they play a role in supporting the people’s economy, MSMEs are also one of the social pillars of society.

In supporting MSMEs, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BRI) continues to show its commitment through AgenBRILink, which not only helps financial transactions, but also increases people’s financial literacy. One of the roles played by Sujana’s BRILink agent Nabil Hakim in the Jatinegara area, East Jakarta.

Sujana said that before becoming a BRILInk agent in 2016, she had been a BRI customer for many years as an employee in a private company.

After several years working as an employee, Sujana decided to leave and start a number of businesses, namely a photocopying business, a postal delivery service and also a photo printing service.

“Until one time, when I was applying for a loan to develop my business, I was offered to become a BRIlink agent by BRI. “After asking what the conditions were, I finally officially became an agent around 2017,” said Sujana to SINDONews at her BRILink Agent stall outlet in the Rawa Bunga area, Jatinegara, East Jakarta recently.

While running a number of businesses from photocopying, photo printing to postal delivery and becoming a BRILink agent, Sujana not only helps earn income from sharing fees, but also helps the people around her become aware of financial literacy.

Moreover, many of the neighbors around his house work as lower class people, most of whom are not native to Jakarta, aka migrants. Most of these migrants come from Central Java and West Java with various professions. These include mobile mattress sellers, meatball and somai sellers and mobile credit repairmen

As migrants, continued Sujana, many of her neighbors usually send money to their families in their hometown to meet their daily living needs. The habit of sending money is common among migrants in Jakarta who are usually the backbone of the family.

Sujana admitted that she was also a migrant and not a native of the capital. Because of this, he felt he could understand and experience the habits of people or his neighbors who wanted to be able to send money to the village quickly, practically and easily without having to go to the bank.