Revealing the Development of Islamic Non-Bank Industry and Its Support to Provide a Better Access to Middle-Low Income Households
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Revealing the Development of Islamic Non-Bank Industry and Its Support to Provide a Better Access to Middle-Low Income Households Indonesia International Conference on Islamic Finance J.W. Marriott Hotel, Surabaya, Indonesia 3-4 November, 2014 Prof. Dr. Zuriah Abdul Rahman Arshad Ayub Graduate Business School Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Microtakaful or Asuransi Mikro Syariah • Designed to reduce financial independence through sharing of risks amongst contributors • Designated to the middle and low income & poor for the Indonesian 114 million population • Product designed to alleviate poverty by providing financial assistance during occurrence of events such as: death, disability, sickness, property loss, financial interest (credit or loans)
Indonesia’s Islamic Finance Landscape • Country with the largest Muslim population in the world • Vast untapped takaful market potential. • In 2011, gross takaful contributions is less than 5% of total insurance market premiums • Despite the low market share, Indonesia is one of the world’s fastest- growing takaful markets. • Preliminary industry estimates, gross contributions in the takaful industry were reported to have grown almost tenfold from IDR 498.9bn in 2006 to IDR 4.97tn in 2011 (Fitch Rating, 2013)
Microtakaful has to be part of the national agendas of nations with a large Rationale number of middle-low income Muslim for the population to alleviate poverty OIC should make microtakaful and financial microcredit part of the 2015 goals set by inclusion of the United Nations Millennium Development Plan (Bhatty, 2010) the underprivil Financial independence will uplift their economic status and contribute to the eged growth of the economy
Indonesia’s Strategic Long Term Plan • The government of Indonesia has risen to the occasion and acknowledged that financial inclusion is essential for the general and economic well-being of the middle-low income population • Financial independence on issues of health care; Indonesia created milestone in its history with the introduction of universal healthcare program: JAMKESMAS (general public) JAMKESDA (civil servants) JAMSOSTEK (social insurance for private sector workers) • Microinsurance and microtakaful were identified to be one of the structures/arrangements that could ensure that this plan materializes
Indonesia’s Strategic Long Term Plan Microinsurance and microtakaful were identified to be one of the structures/arrangements that Financial independence on could ensure that this plan materializes issues of health care; The government of Indonesia Indonesia created has risen to the occasion and milestone in its history acknowledged that financial with the introduction of inclusion is essential for the universal healthcare general and economic well- program: being of the middle-low income population JAMKESMAS (general public) JAMKESDA (civil servants) JAMSOSTEK (social insurance for private sector workers)
MICROTAKAFUL FOR INDONESIAN MIDDLE-LOW INCOME & POOR Profile 04 Need 01 • Microtakaful is • Their PROFILE was offered based on developed after the the NEED of the market survey & market segment secondary research BACKGROUND & RATIONALE Security 03 Risk Priorities 02 • Their RISK PRIORITIES • Their desire came were studied & about due to their documented need for SECURITY both PHYSICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL
MICROTAKAFUL : a national level product for middle-low income population to be launch in phases • PRODUCT PROTOTYPE FIRST • DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS • REGULATION • POLICY WORDING • PRODUCT FINALIZATION SECOND • FORMALIZATION OF PRACTICE (MOU – Partner-Agent Model) MICROTAKAFUL PRODUCT LAUNCH – THIRD AUGUST 2014
MARKET POTENTIAL OF MICROTAKAFUL IN INDONESIA BASED ON MARKET SURVEY PERCEPTION Positive+ POSITIONING Sesuai Shariah Sedekah or Tabarru’ Tolong Menolong Dedicated business unit (dept, FEATURES or unit or SBU) set up Mutual & Profit Sharing (Berbagai Keuntungan) Cash Assistance Plan Santunan – small
MARKET POTENTIAL & PROFITABILITY OF MICROTAKAFUL BASED ON INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE 01 02 PT Allianz Life PT Asuransi Tri Pakarta 3% 20% Indonesia – 3% – 20% income generated from profits per year Microtakaful per year 03 04 TAKMIN Group – 100,000 BMT Sidogiri (AsyKi) – membership generated 400,000 members, 14,000 contributions of Rp150mn small business owners per month 05 06 Pegadaian – bundled Pegadaian - Easy to with pawned products market; well understood, low handling cost
PROPOSED TYPES OF MICROTAKAFUL PRODUCTS BASED ON DEMAND (MARKET SURVEY) LIFE (family) SICKNESS LOSS of (health & medical) FINANCIAL INTEREST TYPES (credit or loan) DEATH (family) ASSETS (property owned)
INDIVIDUAL RISK PRIORITIES # Individual Risk/Problem Risk Ranking By # of # of FGDs Mentioning Risk 1= 3 points, Risk 2=2 points, Risk 3=1 point Points (n=70) Risk (n=13) 1 Illness 115 13 2 Education 103 13 3 Business Capital /Lump Sums of Money 40 4 4 Daily Living Expenses 34 10 5 Death (including cost of cultural ceremonies) 27 12 6 Accident 22 8 7 Retirement/pension 20 3 8 Motorcycle (in general) 11 2 9 House (in general) 9 4 10 Haji/Umroh 9 1 11 Business 8 1 12 Religious Holiday (Lebaran) 7 1 13 Social Pressures (invitations to community events) 5 1 14 Poor Education Facilities 3 1 15 Debt 2 3 16 Livestock 1 2
OUTLINE OF PRODUCT PROTOTYPE Incentive to Industry? Branding? Policy agreement/contract How to & certificate administer? wordings? Who can participate? How to What are the distribute the products? products?
Microtakaful Who can participate? Members of cooperatives, banks, pawnshops, financial institutions
MICROTAKAFUL PRODUCT OFFER BY PHASES Any other innovations PROTOTYPE 4 Non-standard To be launched PROTOTYPE 1 & 2 PROTOTYPE 3 products by Aug 2014 Phase I Phase II Phase III Phase IV • To discuss and decide by Task Force based on the capacity and readiness of the industry. • To establish the target for every phase / product to be launched.
PRODUCT DESIGN (DUAL FEATURES) & DELIVERY Products suitable to participants’ demographic 0101 and economic status from market survey Bundled with microloans/microcredit 0102 (LKS, LKM, KSP) savings with banks etc. Complement existing national health insurance scheme: 0103 • • Elevate their economic status Add value to existing national insurance scheme • Reduced dependency on government hand outs Use of existing infrastructure to market 0104 products Your Logo
Microtakaful How to distribute?
DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS MFIs & [(NGOs be Reference Point) Informal & IMFIs Masjid, Pengajian, Persatuan Kaki Lima etc. MOUs to be Formal Cooperatives signed by individual Communities companies)] Banks Shariah – TELCOs national & rural Post Pawnshops Offices (Pegadaian)
MICROTAKAFUL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION STANDARD PRODCUCT 1 To report only to OJK REGISTRATION NON- STANDARD PRODUCT OF PRODUCT 2 Reported and approved by OJK but subject to approval by SSB (Shariah Board of Takaful Operators) STANDARD /NON-STANDARD 14 days no response from OJK means, APPROVED (current ruling, but proposed 7 working days by AASI)
PRODUCT ADMINISTRATION Strong community relationship, good user networks, member involvement USE OF EXISTING DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS & FORMAL AND INFORMAL COMMUNITY NETWORK Build trust and loyalty Satisfaction guaranteed
MEDIUM FOR MICROTAKAFUL PRODUCT OFFER MOU with distribution channels; Partner-Agent Model PRODUCT Co- Insurance OFFER Arrangement Consortium
MICROTAKAFUL BUSINESS OPERATIONS DISPUTE PEFORMANCE SETTLEMENT MONITORING • Speedy, low cost, fair and • Regular audit by OJK efficient & according to • Self-regulation by Shariah rules; Takaful industry • Settled out of court, (Intercompany use Shariah Standard agreements; policy; Musyawarah or Consortium, Co- dialogue with community insurance depending on products offered)
5. Branding Who are the parties involved?
BRANDING, MARKETING & PROMOTION OJK as Asuransi Mikro endorser of Shariah Logo product Takaful Operator’s Logo AASI Logo
REGULATORY ASPECT ON MARKETING & PROMOTION: Regulation & Supervision 3 parties to be regulated: 1. Takaful industry Business planning; Product development; Shariah compliancy 2. Distribution channels Acts & Rules applicable to institutions ) & • Training on microtakaful to all front liners (TOT) • Promotion & Marketing by front liners • Claims Handling by front liners
PRACTICAL APPROACH TO REGULATION Separation of Funds Balance Between shareholders and microtakaful fund (Aqad as Balance between interest of per regulation) shareholders and participants Efficient (priority on participants) and forward looking supervision and No Separate Rules Risk-Based To address industry Supervisory peculiarities; cooperate Framework with DSN on Shariah issues (Regulation ‘light’ for microtakaful as incentive for TOs Leveraging to offer micro On established field of products) conventional system – Microinsurance Grand Design Shariah Compliant In all aspect of operation
INCENTIVE TO INDUSTRY • OJK to use established Microinsurance Grand Design (accepted by industry) • OJK to relax on Risk Based Capital Policy but ensure Capital Adequacy and Availability • OJK to encourage industry cooperation through Consortium Agreement & Co-Insurance • OJK to encourage innovation and innovative products offerings from industry
ALIGN COOPERATIVE CONCEPT WITH BUSINESS MODEL • Ta’awun - Cooperative Concept well understood by the market • Concept of charity (tabarru’ & incorporation in line with religious beliefs) • Existing infrastructure is adaptable to model & contracts designed to suit model • Regulators (OJK) can influence conventional operators to offer microtakaful products
BUSINESS MODEL Wakalah bi Ujrah bi Mudharabah Benefit upon claim, surrender Benefit upon claim or maturity Participant s Contributions (possible Wakala Fee from zakat funds) Tabarru’ Investment Contribution To cover operating expenses & Retakaful/Reserves Participants’ Participants’ commission Risk Fund Investment (tabarru’) Fund 100% 100% Qard Shareholders’ (if necessary) Underwriting Fund Investment Profit Investment Profit Repayment Surplus of Qard 100% Underwriting surplus
ESTABLISHMENT OF OPERATIONAL MODEL Funds Segregation (Wakalah Model for Standard Microtakaful) Shareholders’ Fund Takaful Funds Pricing : Claims = Income Pre-Underwriting Taka Rp 50K max. Santunan ▪ Upfront fees (ujrah) ▪ Performance fees Retakaful Investment Liabilities from takaful funds Valuation Operating Costs Qard to rectify deficit Surplus / Deficit
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