Happy New Year 2021! We hope that this year things will get better.
Bank Indonesia has issued Regulation No.22/23/PBI/2020 on Payment Systems (“Payment System Regulation”), which is an “umbrella” regulation for the payment system industry. The issuance of this regulation is an implementation of the 2025 Indonesia Payment System Blueprint, which we outlined in our previous client alert. This “umbrella” regulation restructures the regulatory framework of payment systems, including the reclassification of activities of payment system operators. Bank Indonesia’s approach in outlining the rules introduced in this regulation appears to be principle-based and strategic. The technical and operational details of how the rules are supposed to be observed will be outlined in future Bank Indonesia implementing regulations. We anticipate that those will be issued in the coming months, so keep an eye on this space.
