Yusril Affirms 2026 NRA as Reference for Tackling Financial Crime
Coordinating Minister for Legal, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra has affirmed that the National Risk Assessment (NRA) strengthens efforts to combat financial crime.
As Chairman of the Money Laundering Crime Committee (TPPU), Yusril stressed that the results of the 2026 NRA will become a shared reference for all stakeholders in responding to changes in the financial crime landscape.
“The world has changed and the risks of financial crime have also changed,” Yusril said at the launch of the three 2026 NRAs in Jakarta on Thursday (27/8).
He said geopolitical fragmentation, conflict, the development of digital technology, virtual assets, artificial intelligence, and the rise of cross-border crime have made the boundary between conventional and digital crime increasingly blurred.
Therefore, these various challenges must be answered by Indonesia’s 2026 NRA so that the NRA does not stop at being a risk mapping document. Yusril stressed that the assessment results must be translated into concrete anticipatory and mitigation measures.
According to him, Indonesia needs to move from merely identifying risks towards the ability to anticipate risks, from a reactive approach to a preventive one, and from transaction monitoring towards network analysis.
Entering the 2026–2030 period, Yusril emphasised the need for a transformation of the Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorism Financing, and Counter-Proliferation Financing of Weapons of Mass Destruction (AML CFT CPF) regime, namely from technical compliance towards effectiveness, from working sectorally towards integrated collaboration, and from mere risk assessment towards risk mitigation.
“This is a new starting point. We must move from recognising risks towards managing and mitigating risks, building a system capable of detecting crime earlier, disrupting networks more quickly, pursuing assets more aggressively, and enhancing cross-border cooperation,” he said.
Meanwhile, Head of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) Ivan Yustiavandana stressed that the NRA must also be followed by concrete action from all stakeholders.
He argued that Indonesia’s success in facing the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) evaluation cannot be placed on a single institution, but requires synergy among all ministries and agencies, law enforcement officials, supervisory and regulatory bodies, reporting parties, and other stakeholders.
“The NRA is the foundation for the operation of the entire AML CFT CPF regime. It is from this understanding of risk that policy, supervision, reporting, law enforcement, and resource priorities are directed,” said Ivan.
As a full member of the FATF, Ivan said Indonesia has no choice but to continue maintaining high standards and proving that its system is truly effective. The three 2026 NRAs cover money laundering, terrorist financing, and counter-proliferation financing of weapons of mass destruction.
The NRA is one of the important foundations for Indonesia in identifying, understanding, and mitigating financial crime risks while preparing for the FATF Mutual Evaluation Review (MER) in 2029.
The three 2026 NRAs provide an overview of the risks facing Indonesia. In the money laundering NRA, corruption cases, narcotics and psychotropic substances, and information technology-based fraud or scams are categorised as high risk domestically.
Meanwhile, in the terrorist financing NRA, the misuse of non-profit organisations, public fundraising through digital platforms, and self-funding are the highest-risk fundraising patterns.
As for proliferation financing risk, after taking into account available controls, it is in the medium category, with the direct threat to Indonesia relatively low.
Yusril stated that the 2026 NRA results serve as an important foundation for strengthening coordination across ministries, agencies, law enforcement officials, regulators, the financial sector, professions, academia, civil society, and international organisations.
Such collaboration is needed so that risk-based policies not only meet international standards but are also able to provide real protection for the public, maintain the integrity of the financial system, strengthen national security, and preserve Indonesia’s credibility in the global financial system.