Indonesia Sector Update 17 April 2020 Financial Services | Banks Indonesia Banks Overweight (Maintained) Stocks Covered 12 Working Against Gravity; Still OVERWEIGHT Rating (Buy/Neutral/Sell): 8/4/0 Maintain OVERWEIGHT, as Indonesia’s banking sector is a proxy to Top Picks Target Price the domestic equities market. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought Bank Central Asia (BBCA IJ) IDR32,500 about heightened risks on asset quality and loan growth. However, we Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BBRI IJ) IDR3,600 believe government stimulus measures may provide a buffer against the Bank Mandiri (BMRI IJ) IDR6,000 negative impact. Despite a lacklustre outlook, we make no change to our sector weighting, and prefer the bigger-cap picks. Our pecking order is: Bank Permata (BNLI IJ) IDR1,450 BBCA>BBRI>BMRI, and BNLI for the small/mid-cap pick. Loan growth has been decelerating. The COVID-19 pandemic ramped Analyst up in the midst of slower loan growth. In 3Q18 (when loan growth started Christopher Andre Benas slowing down), loans increased by 13% YoY, marking the highest increase +6221 5093 9847 since 2016. 3Q18 was a turning point, and loan growth declined thereafter
[email protected] to 6.1% YoY in 4Q19. As COVID-19 continues its global rampage, we believe loan growth may decelerate to below 5-5.5% YoY, ie half of peak Indonesia Research Team levels. This will be the lowest increase ever recorded for Indonesia, after +6221 5093 9888 the 2008 global financial crisis. That said, we expect system NII growth to
[email protected] trend lower as loan growth decelerates, while loan yields should be under constant pressure due to the lower interest rate environment.