OJK Blocks More Than 6,000 Online Judicial Accounts

JAKARTA - The Financial Services Authority (OJK) has reported that so far it has disbursed more than 6,000 accounts involved in online gambling.

Chief Executive of Banking Supervision of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) Dian Ediana Rae said, at the request of the OJK, banks were actively blocking more than 6000 accounts from data submitted by the Ministry of Communication and Information.

"OJK also asks banks to close accounts that are in customer identification files (CIF) which are the same," he said at an online press conference in Jakarta, Monday, August 5.

Dian said that currently OJK continues to carry out campaigns by involving 25 branch offices throughout Indonesia and involving all banks including BPR and all other financial services sectors to educate and at the same time eradicate online gambling.

"Together we know that judol can endanger the economic life and moral life of the people as a whole," added Dian.

Present on the same occasion, Chairman of the OJK Board of Commissioners Mahendra Siregar said his party also asked banks to see and explore accounts indicated to be involved in judol.

With CIF, said Mahendra, the owner of the account with the same name will be analyzed for his financial activities.

"And in its implementation, the due deligent is carried out so that if this is also seen it is evidence that the overall account owner is the same and the implementation in the transaction is also indicated to have the same pattern for illegal use to stop access as a whole," explained Mahendra.

After an indication was made, he said, his party then ordered banks to blacklist the name of the account owner.