Jakarta – Digiasia Bios (DAB), the first Fintech-as-a-Services (FaaS) company in Indonesia, announced the joining of Sofyan A. Djalil as the company’s advisor. The decision to have Sofyan as part of the team is believed would strengthen the company’s capabilities to continue serving and providing the best in terms of financial digitalization and literacy for the Indonesian people.

Hermansjah Haryono, President Director of PT Digi Asia Bios said, “We are proud to announce the participation of Mr. Sofyan as part of the Digiasia Bios Group. His experience has served in the ministry and has been in various fields, including communication, information technology, as well as the Indonesian economy and national development will be invaluable and we believe it will make a major contribution in supporting Digiasia Bios as a Fintech-as-a-Service (FaaS) company in Indonesia.”

Hermansjah further explained that adding qualified advisor personnel in the company’s management system is one of Digiasia Bios’ ways to consistently improve the services and technology in the financial industry that they provide. Besides Sofyan, Rudiantara, former Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Indonesia under President Joko Widodo’s (2014-2019) Working Cabinet, is also part of the DAB Group’s Advisory and Commissioners Board. It is believed that these influential and insightful figures will also increase the company’s capacities in supporting equal literacy on financial digitalization in Indonesia, so that the understanding and interest of the communities at all levels can further develop.

“I appreciate the trust given by DAB Group inviting me to be one of their team. I believe and can see the great potential from the solid corporate vision and mission as well as the services and technology presented by the DAB Group and its affiliates. The financial inclusion index in 2021 reached 83.6%, which means an increase compared to the previous year. I hope the experience and input I’ll share as we go will be able to further support DAB’s role in contributing to the improvement and advancement of financial inclusion in Indonesia,” said Sofyan A. Djalil, who served as the Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning of Indonesia under President Joko Widodo’s (2014-2019) Working Cabinet and the Onward Indonesia Cabinet.

To date the four business affiliates owned by Digiasia Bios such as KasPro (Digital Payment), KreditPro (P2P Lending), RemitPro (Remittances/ Money Transfers) and DigiBos (Digital Financial Services (LKD)) also continue to present a number of technological advances and mutually beneficial partnerships.

“We believe with the joining of Mr. Sofyan, there will be more innovations, developments and interesting collaborations that we can do in the future, together with our existing and potential partners. We will maximize this progress to continue providing services and fintech solutions with a much higher standard than before,” concluded Hermansjah.

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