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Indonesian bank to add thousands of ATMs in 2012

April 2, 2012

Indonesia’s largest private lender, PT Bank Central Asia, will add as many as 3,000 ATMs to its network in 2012, according to a news item at thejakartapost.com.

The bank's executive director Jahja Setiatmadja said between 2,500 and 3,000 ATMs would be brought online throughout the country, including machines for both cash and non-cash transactions. Jahja declined to say what the bank had budgeted for the network expansion. “We will open a tender. We want the cheapest price,” he said in the story.

The ATMs are being added in order to shorten waiting lines at BCA ATMs, Setiatmadja said.

“We don’t want to hear the ‘Bank Capek Antri’ term anymore,” he said, referring to customers' habit of calling ATMs "queuing banks."

BCA has 8,500 ATMs across the country connected to the 34,600-ATM Prima network and the 34,000-ATM Bersama network.

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