January 21, 2026 | 10:02 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK) has handed over Rp161 billion to victims of financial fraud or scams. The funds were successfully saved through the Indonesia Anti Scam Centre (IASC).
Friderica Widyasari Dewi, the Executive Head of the OJK's Supervision of Business Players' Behavior, Education, and Consumer Protection, stated that the total funds successfully blocked by OJK were around Rp400 billion. She said, "But today we were able to return 'clean and clear' Rp161 billion. In the future, we will pursue the remaining Rp240 billion to also return it to the public," at the AA Maramis Building, Jakarta, on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
Scam victims reported the funds to the Indonesia Anti Scam Center or through several banks. The effectiveness of blocking the funds depends heavily on the timing of the victims' report. Although banks have the authority to immediately freeze accounts suspected of being involved in scams, the process becomes more complex if there is a delay in reporting.
According to Friderica, the flow of funds often immediately diverts from the conventional banking system to other payment channels that are more difficult to trace. "Because it's not just circulating in the banking sector but entering the payment system, entering, for example, online shopping, cryptocurrency, and others. The speed of people reporting is very important," she said.
A total of 411,000 scam crime reports were entered into the IASC system throughout 2024-2025. This consisted of 218,600 reports submitted by victims through the Financial Business Players or banks and payment system providers, as well as 192,300 reports directly from victims via the IASC system.
The number of reported accounts was 681,800, and the number of accounts already blocked was 127,000. As of now, the total reported loss of funds by scam victims is Rp9 trillion, and the total funds of victims already blocked are Rp 402.5 billion.
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