Indonesia's Financial Services Authority launches national campaign with Satgas PASTI to tackle scams and illegal financial activity

Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK), together with the Task Force for the Eradication of Illegal Financial Activities (Satgas PASTI), has launched a National Campaign to Eradicate Scams and Illegal Financial Activities, positioning it as a coordinated public-awareness and enforcement effort against increasingly prevalent digital fraud and illegal finance. The campaign is anchored by the Indonesia AntiScam Center (IASC), described as a dedicated handling centre for scams that use transactions in the financial sector, designed to enable faster, deterrent action. IASC data up to 17 August 2025 shows 225,281 scam reports received, comprising 139,512 submitted via financial institutions and forwarded to IASC and 85,769 submitted directly by victims; 359,733 accounts were verified and 72,145 accounts were blocked. Reported victim losses total IDR 4.6 trillion, with IDR 349.3 billion successfully blocked. Satgas PASTI set out four main workstreams under the campaign: prevention through sustained mass literacy and communications, accelerated report handling through co-location at IASC to speed up account blocking and fund recovery, tighter law-enforcement coordination, and international collaboration to address cross-border financial crime. The launch was paired with an international seminar on preventing and combating financial scams featuring speakers from the Singapore Police Force Anti-Scam Command and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.