Eradicating Online Gambling, Bank Indonesia Freezes 7,500 Accounts

JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia (BI) said it will continue to play a role in helping the government in eradicating online gambling (judol) where until now the number of accounts that have been frozen has reached 7,500 accounts.

"The contracts that have been found by PJP and by Bank Indonesia there are 7500 and almost 100 percent have been frozen," said Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) Juda Agung at a press conference on the achievement of the online gambling eradication desk and data security desk, Thursday, November 21.

Juda menyampaikan sebagai otoritas sistem pembayaran tidak ingin sistem pembayaran digunakan untuk memfasilitasi judi online. Sehingga ada dua line defense.

First, in payment service providers, both bank and non-bank. In this case, PJP is required to have a fraud detection system or a fraud detection system. This system is useful for identifying accounts used in online gambling transactions and other frauds.

"BI continues to play a role in eradicating online gambling. As the authority of the BI payment system, we want to make sure the payment system is not used or facilitates illegal activities including online gambling," he said.

Juda added that his party has prepared two ways as payment authority in preventing online gambling, including collaborating with the entire financial industry in strengthening the digital fraud detection system or the Fraud Detection System so that they can identify accounts used in transactions.

"We have two lines of defense, namely in terms of payment service providers, both bank and non-bank providers, or PJP is required to have a fraud detection system to identify accounts used in online gambling transactions or other frouds," he explained.

Juda added that the list of identified accounts used in online gambling activities or other frouds would be sent to other financial industries so that other parties could immediately anticipate. Where when there is a transaction will be automatically rejected.

"The receipt was also submitted to Bank Indonesia and by Bank Indonesia the account data account was then entered into the BI-Fast system to ensure that once this transaction is used in BI-Fast it will be rejected," he explained.

In addition to collaborating and implementing the Fraud Detection System, Juda added that his party will also educate the entire community, especially those using payment systems, including through mass media and social media.