JAKARTA - In addition to blocking online gambling sites and content on the internet, the Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs, Meutya Hafid, revealed that the government's online gambling desk also takes action against bank and e-wallet accounts that facilitate online gambling transactions.

In this case, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs is collaborating with Bank Indonesia and the Financial Services Authority (OJK) to apply for blocking bank accounts or e-wallets that facilitate online gambling.

During the period of August 8, 2023-19 November 2024, the Ministry of Communication and Digigi admitted that it had submitted 821 applications for blocking bank accounts to OJK. The 821 bank accounts include:

In addition, Komdigi has also found online gambling transactions carried out using digital wallets such as GoPay, OVO, LinkAja, and so on.

The e-wallets detected in facilitating online gambling transactions, based on the findings of the online gambling eradication desk, include:

"This means that once again strong cooperation with banks will be needed because once again the pulse of online gambling is actually in the account or flow of funds," said Meutya at the Press Conference on Performance Achievement of Dec. Eradication of Online Gambling and Dec. Cyber Security and Data Protection on Thursday, November 21 at the Ministry of Communication and Industry office, Jakarta.


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