Here's How Debt Collectors Work, We Are Suspected Of Making Customers Suicide

Crowded on social media, a man with the initials K ended his life because he was burdened with online loan debts.

In fact, it was also conveyed that the victim received a terror threat from a debt collector (DC) allegedly from the Ada Kami application.

Then, how is the billing work system from DC Ada Kami?

President Director of Ada Kami Bernardino Moningka Vega explained that his company has a fairly strict surveillance scheme to oversee DC's work.

In addition, he continued, Ada Kami also divides DC according to the tenor.

For example, if the tenor of short loans between 1 to 10 days will be carried out by team A. Meanwhile, customers with longer tenors will be carried out by team B, and so on.

"The DC Billing procedure for Ada Kami collecton team, in Ada Kami or other platforms what we do is divide the buyets, for example 1-10 days of entry in groups A, B and so on there is a grouping," he said at a press conference, in Jakarta, Friday, September 22.

In addition, said Bernardino, the company also gave directions to DC on the limits that must be discussed in billing.

"In dialogues that are carried out with customers, we usually put them on screen and the boundaries that will be discussed," he explained.

Furthermore, Bernardino said, if DC roughly collects customers, then the number used can be reported to Ada Kami's customer.

The number that called (the customer) was recorded. So we know it's from our DC or not," he said.

In addition, Bernardino said, Ada We also have supervisors in charge of supervising DC.

If DC violates the SOP determined by the company, it will be given a certificate (SP).

"We also have supervisors who he can see, we also have keywords that violate the AFPI's determination. So later the supervisor will ask, 'What did you say to the customer'. If it's recorded, we will act. The level of violation is that we already have a SOP, whether he was given SP1 or SP2 until he was dismissed," he said.