Bank Mandiri donates food parcels

Bank Mandiri donates food parcels

JAKARTA: State-owned Bank Mandiri on Thursday distributed Rp
1.7 billion (about US$170,000) worth of food packets to 20,000
households around the bank's headquarters in Jakarta, 10 regional
offices, and branches across Indonesia.

"We realize that what we have distributed is far from what the
people need, but we hope that with these they will be able to
celebrate Idul Fitri better," one of Bank Mandiri's directors
Sasmita said in a statement made available to The Jakarta Post on
Friday.

The packets -- containing a bottle of syrup, 5 kilograms of
rice, a can of condensed milk, biscuits, a kilogram of
flour, a liter of cooking oil, a kilogram of sugar, and five
packets of instant noodle -- were financed from allocations from
the bank's 2004 net earnings for its community development
program. --JP