inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The Financial Services Authority (OJK) continues to execute various efforts to support online gambling eradication in Indonesia, including ordering banks across the country to block the accounts linked to online gambling.

“Our effort includes instructing banks to block more than 6,000 accounts linked to online gambling,” said the Chief Executive of Bank Supervision Dian Ediana Rae on Friday (8/2/2024).

Dian says OJK has asked banks to also do Enhance Due Diligence (EDD) to customers allegedly linked to online gambling and report their transaction as suspicious transaction to PPATK.

If from the EDD the customer was proven guilty, the bank can limit or even revoke their access to open another account in another bank.

Dian also says that OJK and banks continue to improve the effectiveness of Anti-Money Laundering, Prevention of Terrorism Financing, and Prevention of Funding for the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (APU, PPT and PPPSPM) programs.

Banks also have made various efforts to minimize the use of bank accounts related to online gambling transactions, including by following up on OJK requests to block accounts, overcoming the practice of buying and selling accounts, adjusting transaction parameters so that they can capture small nominal transactions as is the case with many online gambling transactions which can start from a nominal value of 10,000 IDR.

“Banks also do web crawling and coordinate with the Communication and Information Ministry to block online gambling sites and monitor cross-border transaction activities," explained Dian.

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