Accounts Used for Gambling are at Risk of Being Blocked

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Accounts Used for Gambling are at Risk of Being Blocked

Dream - The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology continues to combat online gambling. One way is by requesting the Financial Services Authority (OJK) to block accounts used for online gambling activities.

"We request the Chairman of the OJK Commissioner Board, who has the authority in overseeing financial services in accordance with Law Number 21 of 2011 concerning the Financial Services Authority, to instruct Financial Service Providers to block banking accounts used in online gambling activities."

tutur Menkominfo, Budi Arie Setiadi. Translation: Statement by the Minister of Communication and Information, Budi Arie Setiadi.

According to Budi, his ministry has been continuously patrolling the internet to clean up negative content in the digital space, including online gambling. The results are quite surprising, as bank accounts used for online gambling have been discovered.

"He said, blocking bank accounts will narrow down the maneuvering space of online gambling perpetrators. Because, perpetrators will reconsider engaging in online gambling with the risk of having their accounts blocked."

"The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has made various efforts to handle content through cyber patrols and collecting public reports. One of the outcomes of this handling is the discovery of bank accounts used in online gambling activities."

add Budi Arie Setiadi.

"Discovery of Account"

Since July 17th until September 17th, 2023, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kominfo) has handled a total of 109,090 online gambling contents and 92 fraud contents. Additionally, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kominfo) has identified 1,931 gambling-related accounts.

"Regarding this matter, we kindly request to Mr. Chairman of OJK Board of Commissioners, who has the authority in supervising financial services in accordance with Law Number 21 of 2011 concerning the Financial Services Authority, to instruct Financial Service Providers to block the bank accounts used in online gambling activities as attached in this letter."

The letter from the Minister of Communication and Information is as follows, quoted from Liputan6.com.

Account blocking is an effort to create a clean digital space free from online gambling and slot gambling, in accordance with the mandate of Article 27 paragraph (2) of Law Number 11 of 2008, as amended by Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE).

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