Abstract :
As organizations of public trust, banks have to apply prudential banking principle. When
banks do not apply prudential banking principle properly, it will create of the impacts that lead
to non perfoming loan (NPL). If non perfoming loan (NPL) of a bank is continuing to increase,
the bank will face up a trouble, the instance is in 1997, when banks were getting collapse. To
avoid the similar bad experience, the banks together with Government and Central Bank of
Indonesia change to be more prudent to run their activities. Because the main source of bank
revenue derive from the interest, so the credit risk is becoming prime focus of the banks to
manage. The purpose of this research is to ensure the application of risk management may
decrease non perfoming loan in Bank X. Prior to the implementation of Central Bank of
Indonesia regulation on risk management, the Bank X has already implemented the risk
management internally. The Bank X is then adapted into the regulation released by Central Bank
of Indonesia. As a result, non perfoming loan?s level of Bank X decreased from 2003 until 2008
in general. That result proved implementation of credit risk management of Bank X has been
applied appropriately in line with its function that led to the decline of non perfoming loan
(NPL).
Keywords: credit risk, risk management, non perfoming loan, and Central Bank of Indonesia
regulations.