Airlangga Urges Attorney General's Office to Address Stock Manipulation Cases

The role of the prosecutorial corps is certainly very important, especially in enhancing capacity in understanding financial instruments and law enforcement that is highly relevant to market dynamics,” said Airlangga when opening the International Seminar of the Indonesian Prosecutors’ Association (Perjasa) at the Hotel Indonesia Kempinski, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday (5/5/2026). “Then, to encourage law enforcement against share manipulation or stock frying, insider trading, to proceed consistently and with integrity,” he continued. Airlangga also urged the prosecution to seize assets related to money laundering crimes. According to him, this needs to be done to break the chain of illegal profit-seeking by money launderers. “Then also strengthening the tracing and seizure of assets from money laundering crimes to break the chain of seeking illegal profits,” he said. Airlangga requested that the Attorney General’s Office continue to pay attention to measured law enforcement. He asked the Attorney General’s Office to continue considering market trust. “Law enforcement that is measured must also be considered; handling cases involving the capital market sector needs to be carried out firmly, but also considering aspects of market confidence and market trust,” he said. In addition, Airlangga also asked the Attorney General’s Office to collaborate with relevant institutions such as OJK, BEI, and PPATK to build an early warning system to prevent share manipulation practices. “Then certainly synergy with OJK, BEI, and PPATK to build an early warning system, especially for integrated case handling,” he said.