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akarta picks bidders for Bank Internasional
Aloysius Unditu and Claire Leow Bloomberg News Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Kookmin and Temasek told to raise bid
JAKARTA The Indonesian banking authorities said Tuesday that Kookmin Bank of South Korea and Temasek Holdings, an investment arm of the Singapore government, were their preferred bidders for a majority stake in Bank Internasional Indonesia. But they warned that the planned divestment of the bank could be canceled if the two did not increase their joint bid by Friday.
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Kookmin and Temasek were named preferred bidders even though their offer did not match that by a group including Bank Panin of Indonesia and Raiffeisen Zentralbank Oesterreich of Austria, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency said. While Kookmin and Temasek made a better offer overall, their bid price was lower, the authorities said.
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"If Kookmin cannot raise the price, we will offer a chance to the Panin Bank consortium to revise their bidding," said Syafruddin Temenggung, the agency chairman. "If they cannot agree to our new terms, we will scrap the divestment plan."
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Indonesia wants to sell a 51 percent stake in Internasional to fund its budget deficit, estimated at 34.4 trillion rupiah, or $4 billion, this year, and to get its asset sale program back on track after scrapping a November sale of Bank Lippo because of low bids.
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United Overseas Bank, Singapore's second-largest lender, pulled out of the bidding on Monday.
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"Both Kookmin and Panin offered higher than the floor price" Indonesia was prepared to accept, said I. Nyoman Sender, deputy chairman of the bank rescue agency, which considered the bids based on price as well as undisclosed qualitative criteria.
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The agency did not say how much either group offered, though both offers were more than 1.15 times the book value of 67.9 rupiah a share, or about 1.65 trillion rupiah for the stake, Sender said. At current market prices, the Bank Internasional stake is worth about 2.56 trillion rupiah.
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Bank Internasional, formerly part of the Sinar Mas Group, owned by Eka Tjipta Widjaja's family, received a 11.3 trillion rupiah government bailout in June 1999, in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis.
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"With the presence of a foreign investor, we can expect a new-born Bank Internasional, with a more transparent system and good corporate governance," said Li Ming Suryaputra, at Manulife Asset Management in Jakarta.
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Indonesia now has about 150 banks, compared with about 250 before the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.
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