BANK RAKYAT INDONESIA TO ROLL OUT 4,000 NEW ATMS

JAKARTA, Apr 08, 2009 - Publicly traded bank, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) (JSX:BBRI) said it will have 4,000 new units of automatic teller machines (ATM) this year.

With the additional units the state bank will have 6,700 units of ATM or the largest owned by a bank in the country, the bank Operation Director Sarwono Sudarto said.
BRI, which recorded the largest net profit last year, also plans to build 1,500 new branch offices bringing the total number of its branches to 7,000 by the end of this year, Sudarto said.

He said the country's third largest bank by assets has an ambition to become the largest lender in the country with international standard service and quality.