PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk or BRI is included in the Forbes Global 2,000 list for 2023. BRI has managed to occupy the top position among other Indonesian companies. Internationally known, BRI is ranked 307th, an increase compared to last year’s achievement, namely 349th in the world. From this list, 8 companies from Indonesia are included, the majority of which are State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN). The Forbes 2,000 list lists the world’s 2,000 largest public companies based on sales, profit, assets, and market value. The list of Indonesian companies that are included in the Forbes The Global 2,000 list in 2023 consecutively are BRI (307), Mandiri (418), BCA (462), Telkom Indonesia (787), BNI (930), Bayan (983), Adaro (1,393), and Garuda Indonesia (1,572).
BRI has proven to produce impressive records on 4 assessment indicators. Starting from a profit perspective, which reached US$ 3.45 billion or IDR 51.4 trillion on an annual basis (Year on Year/YoY). Apart from that, BRI also recorded US$119.84 billion or IDR 1,865.64 trillion in terms of assets, a double-digit growth of 11.18% yoy from the previous year. In terms of sales, BRI has recorded figures of US$13.16 billion or approximately IDR 195.8 trillion, and BRI’s market value reached US$53.79 billion or IDR 799.2 trillion.
Not only these four indicators, but there are also a number of other factors used to rank Forbes, including the timeliness of data collection, company reporting policies, country-specific reporting policies, and the time lag between when the company releases its financial data and when the Forbes database verifies it for ranking.
In total, the companies on the list generated US$50.8 trillion in sales, US$4.4 trillion in profits, US$231 trillion in assets and US$74 trillion in market value. However, the cumulative profits, assets and overall market value achieved by the 2000 companies fell slightly compared to last year, although this is the first time that total revenue has exceeded US$50 trillion.
There are 58 countries represented by public companies on the list. The United States leads with 611 companies and China comes second with 346 Global 2000 companies.
June 13, 2023, detikFinance
(https://finance.detik.com/berita-ekonomi-bisnis/d-6770133/bri-posisi-teratas-dari-8-perusahaan-ri-yang-masuk-forbes-global-2000)