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The Effect of Bank Behavior, Financial Literacy on Financial Inclusion and Debt Behavior In Household Consumption

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Abstrac. This study aims to analyze and see the effect of Bank Behavior, Financial Literacy on Financial Inclusion, Debt Behavior in Household Consumption (household study in Pekanbar City, Indonesia). Using purposive sampling method with a total sample of 303 household units that have been in debt or are in debt in the banking sector. Data analysis and hypothesis testing used in the study were SEM-WarpPLS, from this study the authors found that banking behavior has a significant effect on financial inclusion, has a significant effect on debt behavior, and has a significant effect on household consumption. Also found the simultaneous influence of R2 is 18% on financial inclusion, R2 is 43% in debt behavior, R2 is 14% at household consumption. Keywords: Banking Behavior, Know Your Customer, Debt Behavior.
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The Effect of Bank Behavior, Financial Literacy on Financial
Inclusion and Debt Behavior in Household Consumption
Herispon1, Tafdil Husni2, Elfindri2, and Harif Amali Rivai2
herisponpiliang@gmail.com
Academy of Finance and Banking Riau (AKBAR), Pekanbaru, Indonesia1, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Andalas, Padang,
Indonesia2
Abstract. This research analyzes the influence of Bank Behavior, Financial Literacy on Financial Inclusion, Debt
Behavior in Household Consumption. Using a purposive sampling method with 303 households. Data analysis and
hypothesis test used in this research are SEM-WarpPLS, hence from this study, we found that banking behavior has
significant influence to financial inclusion, a significant influence on debt behavior, and has a significant effect on
household consumption. Also found simultaneous influence is R2 of 0.18 in financial inclusion, meaning financial
inclusion can be explained by the banking behavior and financial literacy of 18%. R2 of 0.43 in debt behavior,
meaning that debt behavior can be explained by banking behavior, financial literacy and financial inclusion by 43%.
R2 is 0.14 in household consumption, meaning that household consumption can be explained by banking behavior,
financial literacy, financial inclusion and debt behavior of 14%.
Keywords: Banking Behavior, Know Your Customer, Debt Behavior.
1 Introduction
Bank's behavior; Household expectations for wider access to credit from formal financial institutions as a form of
financial inclusion are still obstacles, these barriers are derived from binding rules from central banks or laws relating
to national banking and formal financial institution policy itself : 1) Know Your Customer is an action taken to
recognize the customer. 2) Prudential Banking, is a prudent principle that a formal financial institution conducts to its
customers. 3) Risk Aversion, because the bank's business is a conservative business. The tendency to the conservative
nature, the bank is careful in running its business. So that risk aversion is compensated as part of the risks such as
interest expenses incurred by relatively high households coupled with the provision of adequate collateral and easily
disbursed. Such problems indicate that access to banking services, especially credit, is still felt difficult by households,
especially small and medium enterprises [1].
Jacobsen [2] states particularly the lending of consumer loans to households in relation to the expectations and
policies of the formal financial institutions themselves: the bank's profitability expectations to customers, the capacity
of customers, the expectation of repayment, and the value of collateral required from customers, household income and
income from interest expense. If these expectations and policies are positively correlated with the prediction of formal
financial institutions, then the loans disbursed to household sectors are assumed to be loose. Conversely, if these
expectations and policies are negatively correlated with predictions of formal financial institutions, the loans disbursed
to household sectors may become narrow, this principle is a reference in the operation of formal financial institutions
[2] Financial Literacy; In the household life many aspects are learned to achieve family welfare, among them is the
aspect of financial management, where financial management related to income and expenditure within a certain period.
Revenue can come from the income of the head of household or family member, in the form of salary and wages
received routine every month plus income received not routine, while for expenditure allocated for all purposes and
household needs within a certain period. So that in the household financial management required knowledge, abilities,
and financial management skills. Financial Literacy deals with financial management on mortgages, leases, bank
deposits, the establishment of pension funds, investments, debt and others [3]-[5].
Furthermore, Definite, SEADI, OJK [6], Bank Indonesia and LDUI [7], Huston [8] that financial literacy can be
influenced by family background, friendship and education environments that can be obtained through formal education
such as higher education and through informal education in the family environment shown by the knowledge, attitude
and behavior of the head of the family or family members in financial management. According to Mian and Sufi [9]
knowledge and financial management correlate with the increase or decrease in debt behavior and repayment behavior.
Meanwhile, according to Kamil, et al. [10] and Brown, et al. [11] the ultimate goal of financial literacy in households
is to avoid bankruptcy due to debt and can reduce interest for debt.
IConShel 2018, September 05-06, Padang, Indonesia
Copyright © 2019 EAI
DOI 10.4108/eai.5-9-2018.2281280
Financial inclusion; Already a global issue among developing and developed countries and still a topic of
discussion in various international forums, the financial inclusion is a correction to financial exclusive that is a financial
condition that only benefits a few people.
Hannig and Stefan [12] argue that financial inclusion is aimed at reaching all levels of society in banking services.
Then mara and Tuesta [13] stated that financial inclusion to maximize the use, access, and minimize financial
exclusive and postulate that the level of financial inclusion is determined by three dimensions namely; user, barrier,
access. This dimension at the same time is determined by the indicator of the demand side and the indicator from the
supply side.
Furthermore, the World Bank revealed there are four types of financial services that are considered crucial to the
life of the community, namely; fund storage services, credit services, payment system services, and insurance including
pension funds [14]. The World Bank also states that the financial inclusion indicator that can be used as a measure of
the development of financial inclusion is; a) access that measures the ability of the use of formal financial services in
terms of physical affordability and price, b) the user is to measure the actual capability of the use of financial products
and services such as regularity, frequency, duration of use, c) quality is to measure whether the attributes of financial
products and services have to meet customer needs, d) wealth that measures the impact of financial services on the life
of the users of financial services [14].
Bank Indonesia [1] explains that financial inclusion must be viewed from two sides, namely the supply and demand
side. The supply side; efforts to embrace all walks of life to utilize deposit products, access, use, services, and other
banking services. Demand-side; efforts to embrace the layers of society to take advantage of access, use, credit services
channeled by formal financial institutions. Particularly in access to credit of formal financial institutions there are two
parts namely; 1) credit financing for investment or productive sectors to micro, small, medium and large enterprises
aimed at increasing the value of goods, 2) credit financing for the consumer sector which aims to improve the quality
of life and stability of household consumption.
In practice, financial inclusion has not proceeded like a household expectation because in the study Wibowo (2007)
cited from Maryatmo and Rahayu [15] found some obstacles to access to loan services include; complicated procedures
and requirements, high-interest rates, the frequency of payments, the terms of payment, the collateral, the amount of
the loan not in accordance with the demand. Budianto's [16] study also supports that the services and access to credit
perceived by the community are still difficult regarding banking administration rules. Then the survey results BPS and
the Ministry of Cooperatives SME [17] that access to credit services is still difficult among others; loan application
procedures, no interest, no collateral, no procedures, high-interest rates, and rejected proposals.
While the purpose of financial inclusion is for formal or non-formal financial institutions to provide convenience
in services and expansions to be enjoyed by households, such as ease of procedure, requirements, competitive interest
rates [18], rapid loan disbursement process , providing credit card-borne facilities, expanding the marketing network
by opening branch offices in certain areas, extending the reach of community services with ATM networks, internet
banking applications, and so on [19].
The actions taken by these formal financial institutions face two consequences: 1) activities of embracing all walks
of life in access to savings and loans as a form of financial inclusion program, 2) to run the bank's own internal policy
of identifying customers with prudential principles to avoid or minimize risks arising from the effect of financial
inclusion carried out. It is clear that formal financial institutions operate two policies at once in which they can
complement or contradict each other, so whether the financial inclusion is maximized while on the other hand, the
formal financial institution holds the principle of prudence in the sense that the bank always minimizes the risks and
not wanting a net performance loan derived from household consumption loans contributed significantly.
Household Debt Behavior; The impetus of higher standards of living, social recognition, and imitation of upper-
class life by the lower classes, people whose real incomes are fixed, those with real fixed income contribute to household
debt [20]. Furthermore, the pattern of social relations can be the cause of the discontent and disappointment experienced
by households in their standard of living [21], where households mimic the behavior they observe around them and
their social reference groups [22], so they get into debt. Then Innes [23] put forward three elements in his debt theory
namely; 1) a loan occurs because of an agreement between the party giving with the receiving party, 2) the formal
financial institution can be an efficient machine in the provision of credit or loans, 3) a good debtor is to pay any form
of debt. So whatever the reasons are arising from the cause of debt, used for any debt, the point of the knot is the debt
is always reduced, and any debt must be repaid.
Furthermore, consumer loans from banks, nonbanks play a dominant role in encouraging different consumption
between households with varying levels of debt. The efforts made by the banking and nonbanking parties are in order
to increase the expansion of its products, services and loan volume [14], [24],[25] with maximum profit objectives.
Supported by the use of technology and information by banks and non banks in introducing their products through the
media visual media, print media, radio media, internet media and others, with the aim to stimulate the desire and
intention of household behavior into real behavior to have a product through the road debt [26]. Although there are
indications that consumer lending is attractive and lucrative, increasing consumer lending with various variations of
credit, especially credit cards, food, and non-food credits with easy requirements, especially offered by formal financial
institutions, or suppliers of goods and services [27].
So in the life of a household, it is found that debt can contribute positively or negatively. The positive contribution
of debt in domestic life refers to studies conducted by [28] found that debt contributes to encouraging household life
toward the desired progress and well-being. Studies from Johnson and Li [18] found that debt can maintain and improve
lifestyles. In the Muzeto study [29] that debt in the short run can increase household consumption and contribute to
economic growth. Ultimately debt is an important and useful part of modern life when debt can be well managed [30].
From the results of this study it can be concluded that household debt behavior can bring households to a better standard
of living when debt can be controlled, and households assume that debt is a liability that must be repaid and does not
consider debt as a heavy burden borne, if the debt is considered as a load then somewhere when this load can be released
or avoided the load.
While the negative contribution of debt in household life is more felt in the long-term period: increasing consumer
spending [29] increasing household vulnerability with debt repayment conflict [31] lowering household consumption
[32] lowered aggregate saving rates, many of which are deemed to be negatively related to long-term consumption
growth [33], [34]. Then the behavior of household debt can lead to various impacts for the household itself, that is, the
economic impact is correlated with poverty or welfare, the social impact of social status is increased or excluded from
society, as well as the psychological impact of having a high lifestyle or chronic stress [35].
From the exposure of concepts and theories that have been described the researchers try to build the research
hypothesis as follows:
1. Banking behavior positively affects financial inclusion
2. Banking behavior has a positive effect on debt behavior
3. Banking behavior has a positive effect on household consumption
4. Financial literacy has a positive effect on financial inclusion
5. Financial literacy has a positive effect on debt behavior
6. Financial literacy has a positive effect on household consumption
7. Financial inclusion has a positive effect on debt behavior
8. Financial inclusion has a positive effect on household consumption
9. Debt behavior has a positive effect on household consumption
Through this research, the researcher tried to show the influence of bank behavior, financial literacy toward
financial inclusion and household debt behavior, followed by process in this study through several stages namely; 1)
introduction, 2) research methods, 3) results and discussion, 4) conclusions, limitations, future research suggestions.
2 Research Methods
The design of this research is survey research with purposive sampling method by using a sample of 303
respondents of the household unit in Pekanbaru City, Riau Indonesia. The sampling period is conducted from December
2017 to January 2018. Indicators of financial literacy refer to the study Kempson el at (2005) cited from Definite,
SEADI and OJK [36], Xiao and Wu [37] covering four dimensions: managing finances, forward financial planning,
making choices in financial arrangements, and look for financial information developed in 9 indicators. The financial
inclusion indicator used in this study refers to the limits issued by the World Bank, namely: Access, User, Quality, and
Wealth [7] developed in 18 indicators. For bank behavior, the dimensions used are Know Your Customer Principles
referring to Bank Indonesia Regulation (PBI) no. 3/10/PBI/2001 concerning Application of Know Your Customer
Principles, Prudential Banking and Risk Aversion Principle referred to Act number 23 of 1999 concerning Bank
Indonesia Article 25 and developed in 9 indicators. Household debt behavior indicators include three dimensions
developed in 9 indicators based on the results of studies related to household debt. Indicators in household consumption
include three dimensions developed in 6 indicators based on the results of studies related to household debt. The
indicator is measured by Liker scale in gradations 1 through 5, i.e. strongly disagree value 1, disagree value 2, simply
agree value 3, agree value 4, strongly agree value 5. In the use of this gradation do not use neutral because in the life of
the household only two choices of debt and no debt. Subsequent modeling, analysis, and hypothesis testing is done by
using SEM-WarpPLS program.
3 Results and Discussion
After the research data inputted in the program SEM-warpPLS with 5 latent constructs then obtained the research
model as follows:
Fig. 1. Results SEM-warpPLS
Source: results of research data 2018
Note : Banking Behavior = BB, Financial Literacy = FL, Financial Inclusion = FI, Debt Behavior = DB, Household Consumption = HC
The size and model used to evaluate the relationship between the constructs is to use the general result output
including: a) the criterion of good of fit average parth coefficient model of 0.213 significant value of P <0.001, b)
average R-squared of 0.250 level significant value P <0.001, c) average variance inflation factor of 1.201 with the limit
must be small from 5, meaning that the general terms in the model have been met. Furthermore, the assessment of
reliability and validity of the indicator of the instrument, in the SEM warpPLS known as the outer model, the
requirement that must be met on the convergent validity with loading 0.70 at the value of P <0.05 and the discriminant
validity value should be lower than the construct [34]. Since the instruments in this model are self-evident, we use a
reference factor of loading factor between 0.40 to 0.70 to be considered for this study [39]. While the limits for
composite reliability and Cronbach's alpha with restrictions 0.70, for this study, can be seen in the following table:
Table 1. Loading factor dan Composite Reliability.
Item
Banking
Behavior
Financial
Literacy
Financial
Inclusion
Debt Behavior
Household
Consumption
Loading***
0.651
0.588
0.531
0.631
0.849
Composite Reliability
0.871
0.827
0.811
0.857
0.939
Cronbach’s Alpha
0.832
0.764
0.798
0.812
0.923
Full Collinearity VIF
1.836
1.221
1.075
1.749
1.073
R-squared
0.179
0.433
0.137
Q-squared
0.184
0.442
0.112
*** significan p-value < 0.001
Path
Direct Effect
Indirect Effect
Total Effect
Hipotesis
Explanati
on
Coefficie
nts
p-
value
Effect
size
Coefficie
nts
p-
value
Effect
size
Coefficients
p-
value
Effect
size
BB --> FI
0.380
<0.001
0.147
0.380
0.001***
0.147
H1
accepted
BB --> DB+)
0.599
<0.001
0.388
0.046
0.129
0.030
0.645
0.001***
0.418
H2
accepted
BB --> HC+)
-0.306
<0.001
0.090
-0.083
0.072
0.024
-0.389
0.001***
0.114
H3
accepted
FL --> FI
0.170
<0.001
0.032
0.170
0.001***
0.032
H4
accepted
FL --> DB-)
-0.034
0.278
0.002
0.021
0.306
0.001
-0.013
0.410
0.001
H5
rejected
FL --> HC-)
0.149
0.004
0.024
-0.011
0.421
0.002
0.138
0.007***
0.026
H6
accepted
FI --> DB
0.121
0.017
0.043
0.121
0.017**
0.043
H7
accepted
FI --> HC+)
-0.074
0.097
0.010
-0.010
0.400
0.001
-0.084
0.069*
0.011
H8
accepted
DB --> HC
-0.085
0.067
0.013
-0.085
0.067*
0.013
H9
accepted
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