POLRI Hands Over Rp 58.1 Billion in Judol Seizures to the State Without a Suspect, How Is That Possible?

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The press conference held by the Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) of the Indonesian National Police on the 1st Floor of the Awaloedin Djamin Building, Police Headquarters, Jakarta, Thursday (5/3/2026) afternoon was unlike usual. This time, the Cyber Crime Directorate (Dittipidsiber) of Bareskrim, which has the badge, did not display a suspect in a case, as is usually shown to media reporters. Dittipidisiber merely showcased a pile of money amounting to Rp 58.1 billion in front of the media. It turned out that the pile of Rp 100,000 notes originated from online gambling (judol). The tens of billions of rupiah were the proceeds of state assets seized from a Money Laundering offence case stemming from judol activity. “Today we are issuing a release relating to the execution of assets seized as an implementation of Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2013, sourced from TPPU with the underlying crime being online gambling,” said Himawan at the press conference on Thursday. He explained that the assets were then handed to the government via the Attorney General’s Office (Kejaksaan Agung) so they could be deposited to the state treasury. Principal Prosecutor Pratama at the Attorney General’s Office for Criminal Affairs (Jampidum) Muttaqin Harahap said they had received the asset handover from Bareskrim investigators. The funds were processed and deposited to the state treasury after court rulings related to the case had become final (inkracht). “What was shown today to all of you is tangible evidence that the online gambling case was resolved through the mechanism of Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2013 which has become final,” Muttaqin said. “As the Executing Prosecutor in the enforcement of a final and binding ruling, we have today also received around 58 billion, and we have also deposited it to the state treasury,” he added. Muttaqin added that the deposition serves as evidence of the collaboration between Bareskrim investigators and executing prosecutors in handling financial crime such as online gambling. According to him, the enforcement focus in the case is not only on punishing the perpetrators, but also asset recovery to minimise losses to the state and society. “The Attorney General’s Office ensures that every seized asset handed over by investigators, especially from Bareskrim Polri, has been deposited into the state treasury as optimisation of non-tax state revenue (PNBP),” Muttaqin said.