Kredit merupakan perjanjian pokok yang tidak serta merta diberikan oleh bank. Sebagaimana yang diatur dalam ketentuan Penjelasan Pasal 8 ayat (1) Undang-undang No. 10 Tahun 1998 Tentang Perbankan yang menerangkan bahwa pemberian kredit harus dengan analisa sebagai bentuk pengamanan bank atas dana bank yang dikeluarkan salah satunya harus adanya jaminan yang disebut dengan jaminan umum. Hal tesebut tidak cukup aman bagi bank untuk memberikan dana bank dengan hanya jaminan umum. Maka akan dimintakan jaminan tambahan yang berupa jaminan perorangan (borgtoch) yang disebut dengan perjanjian tambahan.
Hal yang menjadi pembahasan peneliti adalah praktek jaminan peorangan sebagai salah satu bentuk pengikat jaminan kredit pada PT. Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk dan hambatan serta cara penyelesaian hambatan-hambatan atas penggunaan jaminan perorangan pada jaminan kredit. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian bahwa jaminan peroangan yang merupakan jaminan tambahan atas perjanjian kredit sebagai bentuk keyakinan dari kreditur. Hambatan yang dirasakan oleh kreditur adalah sulit mendapat daftar harta kekayaan penanggung, eksekusi terhadap harta kekayaan penanggung dan debitur yang memakan waktu lama.
Credit was the main agreement all of a sudden was not given by the bank. However, credit in accordance with. Regulations Number 10 in 1998 the explanation of the article 8 articles (1) must with the analysis as the form of the security of the bank on the bank's fund that was spent by one of them must the existence of the guarantee that was mentioned with the public's guarantee. The matter was not safe enough for the bank to give the bank's fund with only of the public guarantees. Then will be requested the additional guarantee that took the form of the personal guarantee (borgtoch) that was mentioned with the additional agreement. The matter that became the researcher's discussions was the practice of the personal guarantee as one of the forms of the fastener of the credit guarantee to PT. Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk and the obstacle as well as the method of the resolution of obstacles on the use of the personal guarantee in the credit guarantee. Based on the results of research that the personal guarantees is the additional guarantee of a credit agreement as a form of confidence the bank against the debtor. The obstacle that was felt by lender was to be difficult to receive the list of the wealth of the guarantor's wealth, the execution towards the wealth and the debtor of the guarantor's wealth that took up a lot of time