Kemenkominfo: The Use Of Trading Robots Can Be Useful For Life, As Long As....

Directorate General of Aptika Kemenkominfo, Anthonius Malau (photo: screenshot)

JAKARTA - Investment using trading robots is now increasingly mushrooming in Indonesia. However, not a few are victims of fraud in this activity, even the losses are up to trillions.

Usually, this investment scam is disguised as an illegal forex and gold trading robot with a money game mode. The perpetrators deliberately target customers who do not understand trading robots and are tempted by large and fixed profits.

According to the Ministry of Communications and Informatics' Directorate General of Aptics, Anthonius Malau's use of trading robots is legal and can be useful for placing technology in every aspect of life, especially in this pandemic era where space for movement is limited.

However, Anthonius said that it must be based on a permit or legality that exists and is registered from the Electronic System Operator (PSE). In order to prevent losses in society due to the rise of illegal trading robots", Thursday, December 2nd.

From here, Anthonius stated that the public would not be easily deceived by illegal investments, because they already know information about who the organizers are and the electronic system that has been registered as a PSE.

Apart from the public, the government, said Anthonius, must also take part in facilitating the use of electronic transactions in accordance with statutory regulations.

"The government must also look at the public interest in the event of the use of illegal trading robots in trading, protecting against losses to the community," said Anthonius.

"There is also the government's obligation to prevent the use of illegal trading robots, such as cutting off access or blocking the use of illegal trading robots," he added.

Even so, Anthonius said the government would not just cut off access to the use of trading robots, there were a number of considerations that had to be taken into account first.

"So if it violates the provisions of the laws and regulations, disturbs the public and disrupts public order, facilitates unlawful acts, it will just be blocked," explained Anthonius.

In addition, Anthonius also explained that blocking data from forex and trading robots in 2018 alone had reached 1000 such fraudulent investment activities. Therefore, he also asked the public to be smarter and more careful in determining investment activities.