PPATK Blocks 5000 Accounts Related To Online Gambling Worth More Than IDR 600 Billion

Head of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) Ivan Yustiavandana (center) at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Monday (13/1/2025). (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) has frozen more than 5,000 accounts affiliated with online gambling activities with a transaction value of more than Rp600 billion.

This decisive step is part of the National Movement for Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (Gernas APU/PPT) which is promoted as a collaborative cross-agency effort in preventing and eradicating money laundering (TPPU) and strengthening the role of the wider community in fighting the rise of online gambling practices.

The head of PPATK, Ivan Yustiavandana, emphasized that the blocking that had been carried out by PPATK was part of a major law enforcement mission to protect the public from the social impacts caused by online gambling (judol).

"This law enforcement process that has been and will be carried out aims to save the public from online loan bondage (pinjol), narcotics, fraud, prostitution, and household destruction due to dependence on online gambling," said Ivan.

He added that other criminal activities are often a further consequence of judol addiction, where the perpetrators try to meet the need for these illegal activities.

"Behind efforts to fight judol, the fact is that the Police and related institutions are saving the future of the Indonesian nation," he said.

PPATK continues to encourage close cooperation between financial institutions, law enforcement officers, ministries/agencies, and civil society in creating a national ecosystem that is free from illegal money laundering and gambling. Gernas APU/PPT is believed to be one of the effective strategic instruments to close the space for financial criminals and strengthen the integrity of the national financial system.