TEXT-Fitch:Planned sharia rules to aid asset quality in Indonesia

According to a statement by Fitch Ratings, Indonesia's consumer finance will probably see an improvement in the underwriting quality and regulatory consistency. The precondition is that Bank Indonesia harmonises prudential rules for sharia-compliant products with the ones for mainstream consumer loan products. Applying tougher loan to value (LTV) regulations to sharia products would make the competition with non-sharia products even. Moreover, asset quality diverging within the consumer finance sector would be prevented.