JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – PT Bank BNI Syariah, subsidiary of PT Bank Negara Indonesia Tbk (BBNI), lifted its profit target by 44% to Rp235 billion for this year, from initial target of Rp163 billion.

By June 2015, the bank booked net profit of Rp99 billion. Its financing also rise 7% from Rp15 trillion in December 2014. The bank targets its financing to grow by 25% this year.

Meanwhile BBNI said it maintains its net profit margin of 6% amid the current declining loan growth. It booked net profit of Rp3.98 trillion as of May 2015. Net interest income rose 14.1% to Rp9.48 trillion while fee based income increased 13.26% to Rp2.2 trillion.