{"id":777035832,"date":"2025-12-09T09:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777035832"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:10:19","slug":"indonesia-e-pay-platform-ovo-blocks-7000-gambling-linked-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-e-pay-platform-ovo-blocks-7000-gambling-linked-wallets","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia e-pay platform OVO blocks 7,000 gambling-linked wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Public reporting flagged thousands of suspicious accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Indonesia.- The e-wallet provider OVO has frozen more than 7,000 user wallets found to be linked to online gambling. News agency Antara reported that the blocks were carried out under the Joint Movement to Uncover Online Gambling (Gebuk Judol), a public-private initiative involving the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) and crowdsourced reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OVO Chief Operating Officer Eddie Martono said the programme\u2019s results had been \u201cquite good,\u201d noting that two waves of public reporting this year produced 11,000 alerts and led to 4,500 account freezes. He said the accuracy rate of public submissions was 91 per cent and that gambling-related transactions on the platform have dropped by as much as 97 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All forms of gambling are illegal in Indonesia, but online casinos remain widespread, prompting the government to intensify enforcement in recent years.\u00a0Enforcement has extended to state institutions and unannounced checks on the mobile phones of junior staff at prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Indonesia blocks nearly 24,000 bank accounts over alleged online gambling<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public reporting flagged thousands of suspicious accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":777035836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"E-wallet provider OVO has frozen over 7,000 user accounts linked to illicit online gambling in Indonesia, a direct outcome of the 'Gebuk Judol' public-private initiative. This enforcement action, involving the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) and the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK), has significantly reduced gambling-related transactions on the platform by 97%, demonstrating intensified regulatory efforts against illegal iGaming operations.","focusai_entities":"OVO, Eddie Martono, Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, Komdigi, Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, PPATK, Antara","focusai_location":"Indonesia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"OVO's AML Efficacy?","query":"What specific enhancements to OVO's AML and transaction monitoring frameworks were implemented to achieve a 97% reduction in gambling-related transactions, and how does this benchmark against regional payment service providers?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Evolution?","query":"Given the success of 'Gebuk Judol,' what are the Indonesian government's next steps in evolving its regulatory and enforcement frameworks to further combat illicit online gambling, particularly concerning cross-border transactions and platform accountability?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[24634,24819,4138,25041],"class_list":["post-777035832","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","tag-online-gambling","tag-ovo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777035832","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=777035832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777035832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777035839,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777035832\/revisions\/777035839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777035836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777035832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777035832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777035832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}