127 Illegal Loan Case Reports In Riau Islands, 63 Percent Of Women Victims

A number of children play near the online loan themed mural (pinjol) in the Tempurejo area, Surabaya, East Java, Tuesday, September 2021. (Between-Didik S)

JAKARTA - The Illegal Financial Activity Eradication Task Force (Satgas Pasti) received 127 reports of illegal online loan cases (pinjol) during January-June 2025, the majority of which were female victims of 63 percent and the rest were 37 percent male.

In addition, the Task Force must also receive reports of illegal investments reaching 25 cases, with various educational backgrounds.

"The victims ranged from civil servants and the private sector, then students and residents did not work," said Head of the Pasti Task Force who is also the Head of the Riau Islands Financial Services Authority (OJK), Sinar Danandjaya in Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands, Saturday, confiscated by Antara.

The Riau Islands Task Force must consist of elements of the OJK, the police, the prosecutor's office, banking, and elements of the government, such as the Ministry of Communication and Digitalization (Komdigi).

Sinar also said that OJK found 10,700 illegal loan entities that had been closed and 1,777 illegal investments that had been stopped throughout 2025.

His party appealed to the public who were victims of cases of illegal loans and illegal investments to immediately report via the Task Force website. Pasti di iasc.ojk.go.id.

The victim only needs to open the address of the website, then make a report accompanied by uploading proof of money transfer and marketing of loan fraud or illegal investment.

"So, for the people of the islands no longer need to come to the OJK office, it is enough to report online, if they become victims of illegal financial activities," he said.

Sinar also reminded the victim of a loan or illegal investment to immediately make a fraud report two to five minutes after the incident, so that the OJK and banks can trace the whereabouts of the money in any bank, then block the account and seek the money back into the victim's hands.

"Most victims report one week or even one month after the incident, as a result the money is gone," he said.

The Task Force must remind the public to pay attention to 2L before investing their money, namely legal and logical.

"Legal means determining whether the investment institution has a permit or not. Then, logically means that the yields offered make sense and are not too fantastic," said Sinar.