PPATK: Online Judi Deposit In The Third Quarter Of 2024 Reaches IDR 43 Trillion

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JAKARTA - Deputy for Analysis and Audit of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), Danang Tri Hartono, said deposits or guarantees in public accounts for online gambling reached IDR 43 trillion until the third quarter of 2024.

The public's deposit for illegal activities has continued to increase since 2023, which is as much as Rp34 trillion so that the condition is considered very concerning.

"We are aware that public deposits to online gambling in 2023 amounted to Rp34 trillion, then in 2024 until the third quarter it reached Rp43 trillion, so you can imagine 10 or 20 percent used for operations, how much is the remaining? More than Rp30 trillion?" Danang said as reported by ANTARA, Friday, December 13.

Transactions from online gambling can be transferred to cryptocurrencies, so that illegal activities are increasingly difficult to contain transactions.

"So, this crypto is not for trading but facilitating transactions, some of which are transactions from criminal acts including online gambling, so we predict that the amount of trillions of money will be transferred to crypto," he said.

Danang admitted that it was quite difficult to eradicate the crime.

This is because many people are still tempted to make a lot of money in a short time, even though they have been proven to lose repeatedly.

"It is difficult to eradicate and sad, it can be seen that he is angry, frustrated, cursed, but still deposits, 80 percent of people who are low-income, pathetic," he said when telling stories about a community who plays online gambling.

He explained, if you want to eradicate online gambling, it takes the involvement of all parties and not only the Government of Indonesia, because the number of deposits for online gambling players is already very high.