OJK to blacklist onlinegambling players

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Financial Services Authority (OJK) will blacklist online gambling players to ensure that they cannot access financial services in Indonesia.

Deputy supervisory commissioner for financial service business players' behaviors and consumer protection at the OJK, Rizal Ramadhani, informed that the OJK will feed the data of people involved in online gambling into an information system, which can be accessed by financial service providers.

This will allow the providers to deny online gambling players.

"We input to the information system. It is expected to create a deterrent effect," he said at a press conference on the Online Gambling Eradication Declaration in Jakarta on Wednesday.

He assured that the OJK is actively taking preventive and eradication measures against online gambling, not only as part of the online gambling eradication task force but also as a supervisory authority in the financial service sector.

Ramadhani affirmed that in terms of prevention, the OJK has been active in educating and improving literacy regarding the harms of online gambling, targeting the community and all consumers in the financial service sector.

He further said that the OJK, together with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics as well as members of the online gambling eradication task force, has blocked more than 6 thousand bank accounts of people involved in online gambling.

"We are committed that we will ban those who are involved in online gambling processes from using all services in the financial service sector," he emphasized.

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On the same occasion, the head of the payment system surveillance and consumer protection department of Bank Indonesia (BI), Anton Daryono, stated that the central bank identified 689 accounts indicated to be used for online gambling from 27 payment service providers in the last four weeks.

The central bank also found 123 web links related to online gambling and 150 accounts sold via e-commerce and social media platforms during the same period.