Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency

The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) (Indonesian: Badan Penyehatan perbankan Nasional (BPPN)) is part of a series of strategic policies taken by the Indonesian government in response to the banking and economic crisis which befell the country following the onset of the Asian monetary crisis in mid 1997. Among other things, the drastic depreciation of the Rupiah impacted bank liquidity, and loss of public confidence to the Rupiah and the banking system in general.

As a measure to cope with the scarcity of liquidity in the nation's banking system, Bank Indonesia, as a lender of the last resort, provided liquidity assistance loans to banks. In addition, the Government instituted a blanket guarantee program for all bank liabilities, in order to arrest further erosion of confidence towards the system.

IBRA had been established on January 26th, 1998 (based on the Presidential Decree No 27 year 1998) and was planned to have lifespan of five years for undertaking its tasks. Even though IBRA’s liquidation took longer than planned, the government finally terminated IBRA in April 30, 2004. According to the law of establishment of IBRA (Presidential Decree No. 27 Year 1998), IBRAs’ objectives were to administer the government's blanket guarantee program, and to supervise, manage and restructure distress banks. These objectives were extended in February 27th, 1999 to include to manage the government’s assets in performing banks under restructuring status and to optimize the recovery rate of asset disposals of distressed banks. IBRA had been undertook an integrated and comprehensive series of activities consisting of bank liability program, bank restructuring, bank loan restructuring, shareholders settlement, and the recovery of state funds. These are carried out by the major operating units within IBRA comprising of Bank Restructuring, Asset Management Credit, Asset Management Investment, Risk Management and Support and Administration.

IBRA is supervised by the Ministry of Finance, the Financial Sector Policy Committee (FSPC) and the Oversight Committee. Financial Sector Policy Committee (FSPC/Komite Kebijakan Sektor Keuangan) was formed in August 21, 1998, which members include the economic ministers of Indonesia, and the Independent Review Committee (IRC), which includes representatives from International Monetary Funds (IMF), the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB).