16 February 2015 - Bank Mandiri is committed to facilitating Indonesian people abroad in sending money back home. In Hong Kong, Bank Mandiri is working with The dairy Farm Company limited, manager of 7-eleven in the territory, to handle the sending of remittances by the Indonesian community.
According to Bank Mandiri Director of Consumer Banking, Abdul Rachman, the collaborative venture with 7-Eleven, which currently has more than 900 outlets, will provide a solution for the approximately 150 thousand Indonesian migrant workers in Homg Kong who wish to send money to relatives in Indonesia.
"Through this partnership, Indonesian people who wish to send money will no longer have to come to and queue at bank branches. Rather, all they will have to do is show the payment cards that they obtained from Bank Mandiri at 7-Eleven outlets in Hong Kong. Remittances will be capable of being sent from anywhere and at anytime within the whole territory of Hong Kong, "said Abdul Rahman.
Bank Mandiri also operates a variety of programs aimed at Indonesian people abroad. One of these programs is the Mandiri Sahabat (My Fried Mandiri) program, which provides entrepreneurship training to Indonesian migrant workers. The programs, which are delivered in conjunction with Mandiri University, have benefited some 6,200 migrants in Hong Kong and Malaysia since 2011.
The Mandiri Sahabatku program is founded on four main pillars, namely, changing workers into employers, reuniting families through entrepreneurship, improving the welfare of families and protecting the environment, and educating the nation.
In Hong Kong, the Mandiri Sahabatku program, which has been underway since October 2011, has attracted a considerable amount of interest from migrant workers, as can be seen from the fact that the number of participants has been increasing from year to year. When it was first launched, there were only 20 migrants in the first batch of program participants. Currently, the number of participants in each batch averages 1,000.
The entrepreneurship training program is divided into 3 phases, namely, pre placement, placement and post-placement. The pre-placement phase provides training to prospective migrant workers who plan to travel abroad for work, while the placement phase takes place in the destination country, where migrants are taught how to analyze business opportunities and design business plans, and are provided with motivational and entrepreneurial materials.
During Post-placement, the participating migrant workers receive monitoring from the Bank to help them start their own businesses as part of the Dadi Majikan program guided by "Foster Father" figures drawn from the ranks of employers, Bank Mandiri customers, alumni of the Mandiri Young Entrepreneur program and Mandiri University lecturers.
The Mandiri Sahabatku program, Abdul Rachman continued, charges no fees, in other words, it is completely free of charge. "Mandiri Sahabatku has the vision of creating new entrepreneurs from among Indonesian migrant workers so that they can become employers in their own country," he said.
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PT BANK MANDIRI (PERSERO) TBK 
