PPATK and OJK Deemed to Have Failed to Detect Online Gambling Operation in Hayam Wuruk
The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) and the Financial Services Authority (OJK) are considered to have failed to detect a cross-country online gambling operation centered on Jalan Hayam Wuruk, West Jakarta. This was questioned by Hamdi Putra, an activist from the Voiced Civil Forum (Forsiber), who highlighted the large-scale operation with elite facilities and significant fund circulation without triggering Indonesia's anti-money laundering system alarms.
Hamdi stated that the industry involves hundreds of foreign citizens and dozens of sites, making it impossible to rely solely on small cash transactions. The scale of this business certainly requires complex financial infrastructure, such as holding accounts, payment gateways, digital wallets, to cross-border transactions. This creates a contradiction to the strong image of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules built by the government.
Under modern AML theory, activities like this should result in repeated transaction patterns and easily detectable geographical mismatches. The system's failure to capture these anomalies gives rise to the perception that national financial intelligence may be lagging or that there are serious gaps in the suspicious transaction reporting mechanism. Previously, the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police (Bareskrim Polri) managed to arrest 321 foreign nationals suspected of being involved in the online gambling operation in West Jakarta.
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