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M. Yasser Arafat
Agung D. Buchdadi
Suherman
Abstract
This research aims to know that bank characteristics influence the performance, the efficiency level of
saving deposit in banks in Indonesia. Return on Asset (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE) and net interest
income are used as proxy variables in performance measurement and non performing loan (NPL) is used
in both as an independent variable in performance model and as a dependent variable in efficiency
measurement. Bank Characteristic variables used in this study are size, asset growth, and a dummy
variable privatization. The data used are obtained by a purposive sampling that only bank which are listed
during 2005 – 2007. The results indicate that bank characteristic have a significant effect to performance
measurement only.
INTRODUCTION
A. Problem Background
Package of government deregulation of the banking sector, issued in October 1988 (pakto'88) is a very
controversial deregulation package in the history of the Indonesian banking. Pakto 88 makes it easy for anyone
to set up new banks with only 10 billion rupiah, (Asikin, 1997)
On the positive side, besides increasing the number of banks, pakto'88 spur growth in the value of banking and
financial transactions. But on the negative side, competition between the owner and manager of the bank also
rose and pushed to the breach of the principle of prudence, such as violation of legal lending limit, which is
distributed both to the individual debtor customers and the debtor bank concerned business groups
(Danusaputro, 1999).
To refine pakto'88, the Indonesian government issued a package of banking policies again in March 1989,
which among others includes the provisions of the health assessment results of the merger, the capital
component for calculating the Capital Adequacy Ratio is more clarified, the provision of legal lending limit,
and provide an opportunity for banks to invest funds in other institutions and to provide long and medium-term
investment loans (Tobing, 2002).
Two years later, to increase public trust in banks, the government issued a new policy which is famous for the
1991 February package. This package regarding capital adequacy ratio (CAR), restrictions on lending that is
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not supported by public funds (LDR), requirements for ownership and management, provision of legal lending
limit and the establishment of reserves to cover risk.
Slowly but sure the 1991 February package brought little influence. The banks began to consolidate meeting
the capital requirements (CAR) to reach 8% by the end of 1993, the maximum LDR 110%, and lending
provisions in the form of small business loans 20%. Regarding compliance issues of CAR, although some
banks have been able to reach 8%, but the average CAR for many banks is below 7%. This situation by itself
also raises new fears that further delay in economic activity will increasingly make it difficult for banks
themselves.
B. Problem Formulation
Based on the description above, the authors formulate a research problem as follows:
1. How do Characteristics bank, company size, asset growth and privatization affect the bank
performance?
2. How do Characteristics bank, company size, asset growth and privatization affect the bank
efficiency?
C. Research Benefit
The benefits of the research are as follows:
1. The results of this research can enrich the results of previous studies in banking consolidation ever
undertaken within and outside the country.
2. The results of this study will assist in providing the deliberations concerning the banking rules,
including whether the Bank of Indonesia has provided protection to customers / public.
3. The results could be used as information about things that significantly affect the performance,
efficiency, debt levels and the amount deposited in the banking industry.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING
A. Theoretical Description
1. Privatization
The definition of privatization has been proposed by various authors, among others, Kay and Thompson
(1975), who proposed privatization is a terminology that includes changes in the relationship between the
government and the private sector.
The above definition was reinforced by Beesly and Littlechild (1984) and Dunleavy (1980) in Bastian (2002)
which revealed that privatization is the formation of the company or transfer of company ownership from
government to private parties. While Dunleavy (1980) argued that privatization is the permanent removal of
goods and services production activities undertaken by state enterprises to private companies, or in the form of
non-public organizations such as NGOs.
Related to the role of government in the state company, Savas (1987) gives the definition of privatization as an
act of reducing the role of government or increase private participation, especially in activities concerning the
ownership of assets. This definition is consistent with that proposed by Butler (1991), namely that privatization
is the turn of the functions of the public sector to the private sector, either in whole or in part.
Bastian (2002) asserted that the basic assumption of the management of delivery of public services to the
private sector is in order to increase efficiency of resource used. Privatization is seen as the best alternative,
because the market mechanism will allow the efficiency of economy. According to Makhija (2003), there are
three methods of privatization, namely: 1) direct sales; 2) auctions; and 3) through a tender offer. Similarly,
there are several alternatives that are available in determining the ownership structure of corporate equity in the
process of privatization, among others, include: 1) direct sales to domestic purchasers; 2) direct sales to foreign
buyers; 3) submitted to the shareholders equity, and 4) equity held by the government.
2. Banking Performance
Cuervo and Villalonga (2000) say that the reference to company performance is the financial and
operating efficiency of a company. This definition is then developed in a more operational term by
Makhija (2003) using performance variables consisted of: 1) size, 2) the variation of profitability, 3)
leverage, 4) market share, 5) managerial efficiency, and 6) ownership by management, community,
and government.
Financial ratios included in the CAMEL can be used as measure of banking performance. CAMEL
consists of five criteria: capital, assets, management, earnings and liquidity (the dictionary of
Banking, 1999).
The following ratios contained in the CAMEL, namely:
a. CAR (Capital Adequacy Ratio) CAR is the ratio that shows how much the total bank assets that
contain risks involved are financed from its own capital in addition to obtaining funds from sources
outside the bank. This ratio can be formulated as follows:
CAR. = Bank capital x 100%
Total ATMR
b. Fixed Assets to Capital Ratio (ATTM). This ratio measures the ability of bank management in
determining the amount of fixed assets and inventory owned by the bank concerned to capital. This
ratio can be formulated as follows:
ATTM = Fixed Assets and Inventory x 100%
Capital
c. Ratio of problem productive assets (APB). This ratio indicates the ability of management to manage
the bank problem productive assets to productive assets. This ratio can be formulated as follows:
APB = Problem productive assets x 100%
Total productive assets
d. NPL (Non Performing Loan). This ratio indicates the ability of bank management in managing
problem loans granted by banks. This ratio can be formulated as follows:
NPL = Non performing loans x 100%
Total loans
e. Ratio PPAPAP (Allowance for Earning Assets Earning Assets). This ratio is defined as follows:
Losses on Earning Assets = PPAP which has been formed x 100%
Total earning assets
g. ROA (Return on Assets). This ratio is used to measure the ability of bank management in order to
obtain the profits generated from the average total assets of the bank concerned. This ratio is
defined as follows:
ROA = Profit after tax x 100%
Total assets
h. ROE (Return on Equity). This ratio is used to measure the bank management performance in
managing capital available to make a profit after tax. This ratio is defined as follows:
ROE = Profit after tax x 100%
Equity
i. NIM (Net Interest Margin). This ratio is used to measure the ability of bank management in
managing productive assets to generate net interest income. This ratio is defined as follows:
NIM = Net Interest Income x 100%
Productive assets
j. BOPO (Ratio of Operating Expenses to Operating Income). The ratio is often called the efficiency
ratio was used to measure the ability of bank management in controlling operating expenses to
operating income. This ratio is defined as follows:
ROA = Operating Expenses x 100%
Operating Income
k. LDR (Loan to Deposit Ratio). This ratio is used to assess the liquidity of a bank by dividing the
total loans given by banks to third party deposits. This ratio can be formulated as follows:
LDR = Total loans x 100%
Total deposits
3. Previously studies review
Havrylchyk (2005) examined the relationship of banking consolidation and efficiency in Poland.
Efficiency is measured by cost efficiency, allocative efficiency and technical efficiency. The research
reveals that foreign ownership influence efficiency. Subsequently it was found that foreign banks are
more efficient than domestic banks in comparison with the level of 73.23% and 52.92%. This means
that foreign banks be able to empower the superior technology
Okazaki and Sawada (2006) revealed the relationship between banking consolidation and
performance. Samples of their research are companies that have consolidated starting January 1927
until December 1932 in Japan. The number of consolidation samples is 164. The regression result
shows that consolidation has a significantly positive effect on deposit growth, but significantly
negative effect on change in ROA. Size, changes in branch and an urban dummy variable have
significantly positive effect on almost all panel ROA regression.
Laeven (2006) researched the effect of competition, diversification, and ownership on the
performance of banks in some Asian countries. Bank performance is measured by operating income
to total assets, and activity-adjusted operating income to total assets. Explanatory variables used are
income diversity, size (total assets), total operating income, market share of deposits, deposits to
liabilities, and equity to assets, growth in operating income, domestic private ownership, and foreign
ownership. Laeven said that generally the process of banking consolidation is still running and the
increase in foreign ownership of banks has improved bank performance and stability.
4. Hypothesis
Temporary answers of this study are as follows:
1. Description of Statistics
This study used data from bank financial statements listed in the Indonesia stock exchange during
The year 2005-2007. The data for 25 banks in three years i.e. 75 data is summarized in the following
table:
Based on the data processing, the maximum ROA is obtained by the Bank Rakyat Indonesia in 2005 by 5%
while the minimum ROA is obtained by the Bank Executives International, Tbk in 2005 by -3%. The next
performance variable is ROE which has average 10, 52% with large standard deviation that is equal to 10.13%.
Maximum ROE earned by Bank Rakyat Indonesia in 2005 was 37.92% while the minimum ROE earned by
Bank Executives International, Tbk in 2005 amounted to -36.14%. Performance variable, net interest income to
total asset has almost the same average with ROE i.e. 10.24% but has a smaller standard deviation compared to
ROE that is equal to 2.06%. Maximum net interest income to total asset is acquired by Bank Danamon in the
year 2007 amounted to 14.99% while the minimum value obtained by Century Bank in 2005 amounted to
6.52%. NPL variable is available only 71 data because the data and the Bank the Bank NPL Executive
International, Tbk in 2005.
SIZE variable is obtained by logarithmic the total assets of the banks. The maximum value of SIZE Variable is
obtained by Bank Mandiri Tbk in 2007 i.e. 8, 5 while the minimum value is obtained by the Bank Himpunan
Saudara, Tbk in 2005 amounted to 5.87.
GROWTH variable has an average rating of 16.27% with a standard deviation of 15.34%. The maximum
value of GROWTH is obtained by Bank Victoria International Tbk in 2007 i.e. 82%, while the minimum value
is obtained by Bank Bumi Arta Tbk in 2005 amounted to -29.37%
PRIVATE variable is a dummy variable indicating whether such bank is the result of the privatization process
or not. It is valued 1 if the bank was privatized, and the value 0 if not. According to the data, there are four
banks that are privatized namely Bank Mandiri, Tbk, Bank Negara Indonesia Tbk, Bank Bukopin, and Bank
Rakyat Indonesia, Tbk.
Based on data collected, LOAN and NPL variables do not have normal distribution as shown by Kolgomorov-
Smirnov Z which has a significance value smaller than 0.05. So these three variables are logarithmic to get the
value in normal distribution. Results of normality test method Kolgomorov-Smirnov Z is presented in table 4.2.
Table 3. Description of Variable Data Stats on Sports Chosen After
Variable N Mean Max Sun Std.Dev KS Z Sig
ROA 75 0.01140.05 -0.03 0.0107 1.054 0.217
ROE 75 0.10520.38 -0.36 0.1013 1.247 0.089
NICA 75 0.10240.15 0.07 0.0206 1.152 0.141
LOG NPL 71 -1.49-2.46 -0.58 0.3532 0.560 0.912
SIZE 75 7.19338.50 5.87 0.7479 0.929 0.354
GROWTH 75 0.16270.82 -0.029 0.1534 0.872 0.432
PRIVATE 75 0.16001.00 0.00 0.3691 4.397 0.000
Source: Data processed
In addition to the normality test, stationarity test was also carried out to test if the data is stationary or not. By
using e-views software data already known to be stationary as shown in Table 4 where the value of F smaller
than the critical value for confidence level of 99% amounting to -3.532.
Discussion
C. Classic assumptions test with variable net interest income to total asset as dependent Variable
See appendix ...
The test results show the existence of the autocorrelation phenomenon. So that variable net interest income
to total asset, LOGNPL, SIZE, GROWTH use the data with first
lag. From the table 4.6. These data is distributed normally which is shown by Kolgomorov
Smirnov Z values with significant value above 0.05. Autocorrelation phenomenon has been
successfully removed considering Durbin-Watson value = 2.021 in accordance with the
correlation values between the encyclopedia using the formula. Tests for multicollinearity are
indicated by VIF and tolerance values in Table 4.6. VIF values below 10 and all the variables
tolerance value above 0.01, and then we can conclude this model is free from symptoms of
multicollinearity. While heteroscedasticity test is conducted using white-heteroscedasticity that is
available in the program E-views. With the value of OBS * R-squared 9.9122 and probability>
0.05, it can be indicated that the model is free of heteroscedasticity symptoms.
Table 5. Indicated the bank's performance using ROA and ROE with the value of F reaches 99%
confidence level. NPL variable in both models has negative and significant at the 99% confidence level.
Similarly, the variables SIZE have a positive effect and achieve 99% confidence level. When compared to
the value of adj. R 2 , it can be concluded that the bank characteristic variables in this study better in
explaining the ROE because the resulting value is greater than when used ROA variable.
The experimental results show significant negative NPL variable in line with research by Basu, Druck,
Marston and Susmel (2004) on the measurement of bank performance in Argentina. However a PRIVATE
variable that has a positive effect on performance is not observed in this study. Research by Okazaki and
Sawada (2006) who found a significant positive effect of SIZE variable on bank performance is also
indicated in this study. Research by Laeven (2006) who study the effect of competition, diversification, and
ownership on the bank performance in some Asian countries conclude a significant positive effect of the
variable SIZE and GROWTH on bank performance. However, this study is only line on the SIZE variable,
while the variable GROWTH found a positive effect but not statistically significant. This occurs because of
the difference in which the proxy is used; this study uses asset growth, while his study used operating
income growth.
In this study, bank efficiency variable is represented by NPLs that shows the percentage of loans that
categorized as default. Test of the classical assumption on the model is presented in the following table:
See appendix ....
The test results show the existence of the autocorrelation phenomenon. So that variables LOGNPL, SIZE,
and GROWTH use the data with first lag. Outlier test results showed that only 70 qualified data in this
study. Table 4.8. Shows that these data is distributed normally with Kolgomorov Smirnov Z significant
value above 0.05.
Tests for multicollinearity are indicated by the value of VIF and tolerance on the table 4.8. VIF values
below 10 and all the variables tolerance value above 0.01, and then we can conclude this model is free
from symptoms of multicollinearity. While heteroscedasticity test is conducted using white-
heteroscedasticity that is available in the program E-views. With the value of OBS * R-squared 6.9875 and
probability> 0.05, it can be indicated that the model free from symptoms of heteroscedasticity.
The results of regression on the bank efficiency measurement are summarized in table 4.9. As follows:
Based Table 6. It can be concluded that the model is valid for 99% confidence level where the value of F
has a significance <0.01. If we take a closer look on the table, it shows that only PRIVATE variable effects
positively and significantly for 95% confidence level. While SIZE variable is positively related and
GROWTH is negatively related but not statistically significant. Value adj. R 2 is small enough that the
independent variables are only able to explain the change of variable NPLs amounted to 13%
This study aims to examine the effect of bank characteristics on bank performance, bank efficiency, total bank
loans, and total bank deposits. Based on the research and discussion on this study can be summarized as follows:
• Calculation of bank performance using proxy ROA and ROE can be explained by the variables SIZE and
NPL of the banks. NPL variable in both models have negative effect at significant level of 99%. While the
variable SIZE has a significant positive effect on the 99% confidence level. Value adj. R 2 amounted to
41.1% in the model with ROE proxy is better than a model that is proxies by ROA of 30%.
• Bank Characteristics selected in this study have no significant effect on bank efficiency measurement.
Dummy variable PRIVATE is statistically has positive effect on the level of 95%. Value adj. R 2 generated
in this study is also quite low at 13%
• Bank characteristic variables can be inferred to explain only variable SIZE has positive effect and
significant for 99% confidence level. While PRIVATE and GROWTH variables have positive and negative
effect but not statistically significant.
• This study concluded that bank characteristic variables are valid to explain PRIVATE and SIZE variables
have positive effect and significant in this study. While the GROWTH variable has positive effect but not
significant.
B. Recommendations
Based on the conclusions of the research results above, the researcher suggests the following:
• For investors in banking stocks should pay attention to the amount of NPLs held by banks considering that
NPL variable is a bank efficiency proxy which effects significantly on bank performance. SIZE variable
that indicates the total assets of banks should also be taken into consideration in such investments as loans
and deposits are in one direction with the amount of bank assets.
a. Attempt to process the data with the panel system considering the bank characteristics can not be united
for granted. However, the availability of such data is needed in this research.
b. Insert other variables in performance measurement, efficiency, loans and deposits. Suppose enter a
variable rate of interest on the LOAN model, or on the DEPOSITO model.
c. If it is possible to extend this research not only for banks that listing only. But banks and financial
institutions that are not listing on the stock market to give a comprehensive view of the Indonesian banking
industry.