INDONESIA - BANKING - Maybank Optimistic It Will Maintain Control of BII

www.thejakartaglobe.com - Kuala Lumpur. Malayan Banking is convinced that it will
be able to keep its controlling stake in Bank Internasional Indonesia
despite the recent change in bank ownership rules in Indonesia.

Maybank, which bought BII in 2008, owns 97.3 percent of Indonesia’s eighth-largest lender.

Last Tuesday, BII reported that it recorded a 61 percent increase in net income during