PPATK -Blagging accounts unemployed, Dasco: Save customers money

Jakarta -Financial analysis and transaction reporting center (PPATK) do a blocking of dormant accounts or accounts that do not have transaction activation within 3-12 months. Indonesian Parliament Submi Dasco Ahmad said his party received an explanation from PPATK that the step was aimed at protecting the client’s account. “That PPATK actually wants to protect a customer account that is believed to be sleeping,” Dasco said in the Indonesian Parliament Building, Jakarta, on Thursday (7/31/2025). “Since the clant accounts are presumably sleeping, whose name is the administrative money, but then the interest is paid, the client’s right is not given,” he added. Browse to continue the content, says Dasco, PPATK explained that there are inactive accounts that come from a number of crime. In this way, the account was frozen while waiting for confirmation from the owner. “And according to PPATK, it’s not difficult to reactivate,” he said. As is known, the head of PPATK Ivan Yustiavandana said that this step was not taken for no reason. It was found that up to ten years there were more than 140 thousand sleeping accounts with a value of RP 428.61 billion without any update of the customer data. “It opens a great gap for practicing money laundering and other crimes, which will harm the interests of the community or even the Indonesian economy in general,” he said in a written statement reported by DetikFinance on Tuesday (29/7). For the past five years, Ivan has mentioned the rise of the use of sleeping accounts that are unknown/realized by the owner to be the target of crime. Among other things, it is used to accommodate funds from criminal acts, buying and selling accounts, hacking, nomine use as shelter accounts, anesthetic transactions, corruption and other crimes. “Funds in the slumbering account are taken over by the internal bank or other parties and the slumbering account of which the owner is unknown (never the strengthening of the customer data). (IAL/FCA)