The government should name candidates to fill the vacant post of Bank Indonesia’s governor as well as those nominated to replace deputy governor Siti Ch. Fadjrijah, banking analysts have said.
“It should be the main priority to immediately name the central bank’s new governor,”
BNI Chief Economist A. Tony Prasetiantono said Sunday. “I think it’s better to have a governor and not to have a senior deputy governor, instead of having a senior deputy governor but not having a governor.”
Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said earlier this month Yudhoyono was selecting the names of BI governor candidates. But he refused to mention names.
There has been speculation that BI Senior Deputy Governor Darmin Nasution may be named as a candidate for BI governor. But this will leave a vacant post for senior deputy governor position due to the law. If the President names Darmin as candidate for BI governor, his position could not be filled immediately. Article 41 in the 2004 law on BI stipulates that the replacement of members of the BI board of governors is limited to a maximum of two positions annually.
Former BI governor Boediono left his position in May 2009 to run as the Vice President.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono recently submitted three names as possible replacements for BI Deputy Governor Siti Ch. Fadjrijah, to be chosen by the House of Representatives in early April.
The three names are Halim Alamsyah, director of banking research and regulation at BI; Perry Warjiyo, director of monetary policy research at BI; and Krisna Wijaya, a commissioner at Bank Danamon, who is the only non-BI candidate.
Halim or Krisna seem to be the stronger ones to replace Fadjrijah, who was in charge of banking supervision before she fell ill in the midst of the Bank Century collapse.
BI’s banking supervision has been widely criticized following the Century collapse in November 2008, which cost the Deposit Insurance Corporation Rp 6.76 trillion (US$716 million), to finance the government-approved bailout.
“The empty post is [banking] supervision and BI just had the Century ‘storm’, so in my opinion the post is more suitably given to a commercial banker who could more rapidly detect misappropriation in a commercial bank,” Tony said.
“So Krisna is more suitable. Perry and Halim I suspect will fill the next expired positions in the board of governors,” he said.
BI spokesman Dify Johansyah said in 2012 BI Deputy Governor Muliaman D. Hadad and BI Deputy Governor Budi Mulya would end their terms.
But Dify dismissed speculation that Krisna or Halim would be the strongest candidates. “The appointed candidate isn’t automatically in charge of banking supervision. It can be rotated based on the workload of the board of governors,” he said, adding that BI Deputy Governor Budi Rochadi has taken over banking supervision prior to Fadjrijah’s illness.
Perry himself said he would review regulatory compliance at BI, which he said could be strengthened. “[There needs to be] improvement, structure and efficiency [of regulatory compliance],” he said.
More challenges will be faced by the appointed candidate, said Tony, particularly after the establishment of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) at the latest by the end of this year, as stated by the law on BI. The OJK will supervise the whole financial sector.
Lawmaker Akhsanul Qosasih, vice chairman of the House’s commission XI which oversees financial affairs and which will test the BI deputy governor candidates, said the assessment of Halim would be troubled by the Century case.
Krisna in 2005 was also nominated as BI deputy governor candidate, but the House chose Fadjrijah
over him.
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