Investigate Sources Of Khilafatul Muslimin Funds, PPATK Freezes 21 Accounts

Illustration - The joint team dismantled the Khilafatul Muslimin's nameplates and attributes in three locations. BETWEEN/HO

JAKARTA - The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) has frozen 21 accounts related to the Khilafatul Muslimin organization. The goal is to track the flow and sources of funding for the organization.

"So far, PPATK has temporarily suspended or in layman's terms, temporarily frozen around 21 accounts in several banks," said PPATK's Director of Analysis Maryanto to reporters, Thursday, June 16.

However, it was not detailed about the amount of funds in the dozens of accounts. Maryanto only said that the frozen balance was not much. "When we made a temporary suspension, the balance was not significant," he said.

Apart from that, Maryanto emphasized that the temporary suspension was carried out to facilitate the process of investigating the source or flow of funds. Thus, the parties involved, including the alleged flow of funds from abroad, will be detected.

"Of course this provides an opportunity for investigators to further explore the relationship between account owners, flows and, then senders of funds and recipients of funds and so on," said Maryanto.

On the previous occasion, the police mentioned that one of the sources of funding for the Khilafatul Muslimin organization came from its members. Because, there is a rule that requires you to donate IDR 1,000 per day.

Based on the results of the preliminary examination, the number of members of this organization reached tens of thousands. Thus, the money obtained from the donation was quite large.

Then, funding is also obtained from schools owned by the organization. This is because parents are also required to make donations.