Banks Sever Ties with 51,200 Customers Over Online Gambling Indications, Says OJK
Jakarta, VIVA – The Financial Services Authority (OJK), through its Chief Executive of Banking Supervision, Dian Ediana Rae, reported that as of May 2026 the banking industry has terminated business relationships with 51,200 customers due to indications of transactions linked to online gambling.
At the “OJK Banking Forum 2026”, Dian added that over the same period banks have also refused to establish business relationships with around 2.8 million prospective customers.
The provisional results of continuous risk-based supervision were obtained through compliance examinations, requests to refine online gambling transaction detection parameters, the preparation of sectoral risk assessments, and strengthening industry capacity in the application of customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD).
“Strengthened risk-based supervision is one of the main measures that OJK continues to undertake together with the banking industry in efforts to eradicate online gambling,” Dian said in the Thamrin area, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday, 14 July 2026.
He confirmed that OJK has also strengthened the implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorism Financing, and Counter-Proliferation Financing of Weapons of Mass Destruction programmes (APU, PPT, and PPSPM) through POJK Number 8 of 2023. This aligns with OJK’s efforts to strengthen coordination and the handling of accounts related to online gambling.
Based on recommendations from the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), OJK has required banks to carry out EDD and follow up with account blocking and the filing of Suspicious Financial Transaction Reports (LTKM) to PPATK whenever accounts show indications of use for online gambling.
“In this regard, after going through the EDD process, 32,453 accounts have been blocked,” he said.
He added that LTKM filings with indications of gambling as the underlying criminal offence from all banks in Indonesia to PPATK have shown increasing data in recent years.
According to him, on the one hand this reflects the banking industry’s commitment and contribution to eradicating online gambling practices. On the other hand, it also demonstrates that the challenges faced in eradicating online gambling remain considerable.
LTKM filings for gambling-related indications in 2025 showed a significant increase of 260.03 per cent. This, Dian said, was in line with the significant rise in the contribution of gambling-related indications to total indications, from 18.37 per cent in December 2024 to 48.83 per cent in December 2025.