{"id":777032957,"date":"2025-10-10T08:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777032957"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:19:44","slug":"indonesia-freezes-bank-accounts-and-welfare-payments-over-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-freezes-bank-accounts-and-welfare-payments-over-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia freezes more bank accounts and welfare payments over online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over 27,000 bank accounts have been targeted and welfare payments suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia.\u2013 The Financial Services Authority (OJK) says it has ordered <strong>the closure of 27,395 bank accounts<\/strong> suspected of links to illegal betting. Chief executive of banking supervision <strong>Dian Ediana Rae<\/strong> said the number of accounts flagged for closure <strong>rose from 25,912 in the previous month<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ministry of Social Affairs says it has suspended welfare payments for approximately 300,000 beneficiaries identified as having engaged in online gambling. Social affairs minister<strong> Saifullah Yusuf<\/strong> reported that of nine million people identified as using online casinos, <strong>600,000 were welfare recipients<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) found that 132,557 beneficiaries used Rp542.5bn (US$32.77m) of welfare funds for gambling, with significant activity in West Java, Central Java, and Jakarta. A<strong> re-verification process is underway<\/strong>, with sanctions ranging from warnings to permanent removal from welfare programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/where-is-indonesia-cover.webp-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-seizes-us9-5m-linked-to-alleged-illegal-online-gambling'>Indonesia seizes US$9.5m linked to alleged illegal online gambling<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 27,000 bank accounts have been targeted and welfare payments suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":777028000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indonesian authorities have intensified their crackdown on illegal online gambling, with the Financial Services Authority (OJK) ordering the closure of over 27,000 bank accounts. Concurrently, the Ministry of Social Affairs has suspended welfare payments for approximately 300,000 beneficiaries found to be engaged in online gambling, with the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) identifying significant misuse of welfare funds.","focusai_entities":"Financial Services Authority (OJK), Dian Ediana Rae, Ministry of Social Affairs, Saifullah Yusuf, Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK)","focusai_location":"Indonesia, West Java, Central Java, Jakarta","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.75), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on regulated market?","query":"What are the long-term implications of Indonesia's aggressive stance against illegal gambling for the potential development of a regulated iGaming market in the region?"},{"label":"AML framework effectiveness?","query":"How will the OJK and PPATK's enhanced enforcement actions influence the evolution of AML and counter-financing of terrorism (CFT) frameworks within Indonesia's financial sector?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[24634,24819],"class_list":["post-777032957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-illegal-online-gambling","tag-indonesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777032957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777032957"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777032957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777032969,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777032957\/revisions\/777032969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777028000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777032957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777032957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777032957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}