Komdigi Supports Blocking Bank Accounts Used By Online Judi By PPATK

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs cooperates with the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) to block bank accounts used for online gambling transactions.

The Minister of Trade, Meutya Hafid, emphasized that the termination of access to online gambling sites alone is not enough to provide a deterrent effect on online gamblers. Because according to him, content can be remade, while accounts are difficult to reopen after being blocked.

Support for PPATK is also in line with the increasingly creative creation of online gamblers in finding loopholes that are not tracked down by the content crawling system to promote online gambling.

Meutya also welcomed the PPATK's steps in tracking accounts indicated that they were related to online gambling, as well as encouraging the banking sector to be more stringent in the customer verification process.

Meutya said that through cross-sectoral collaboration between the Ministry of Communication and Culture and PPATK, efforts to break the online gambling chain are expected to run more effectively.

"Banks must also be asked to be stricter so that the perpetrators cannot create more accounts. This is good if it is combined, so there is a crawling of content and there is also a crawling of accounts," said Meutya.

From October 20, 2024 to July 28, 2025, the Ministry of Komdigi has taken down nearly 2.5 million negative content, with around 1.7 million of them related to online gambling.