Indonesia Expands Online Gambling Account Crackdown as 38,796 Accounts Are Flagged

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority has instructed banks to apply enhanced due diligence and/or blocking measures to around 38,796 accounts linked to suspected online gambling, while expanding the crackdown to other accounts held under the same national identity numbers.

Indonesia is tightening financial controls against online gambling, with the Financial Services Authority (OJK) directing banks to scrutinize or block approximately 38,796 accounts identified as being linked to gambling activity.

The latest figure, based on data provided by the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, is up from around 38,375 accounts previously flagged. Banks are required to conduct Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and/or blocking depending on the results of their assessments.

OJK has also expanded the approach beyond individual suspicious accounts. Banks are being instructed to identify and close other accounts registered under the same National Identity Number (NIK) as people linked to online gambling, while applying additional due-diligence procedures.

The measure is designed to make it harder for gambling networks or individual participants to simply move funds to another account after an initial account is detected. Earlier government data showed that around 32,500 gambling-linked accounts had already been closed following verification and cleansing procedures.

The scale of the financial flows remains significant. Indonesia’s Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) recorded IDR86.82 trillion in online gambling turnover during the first half of 2026 across 467.32 million transactions. Deposits reached IDR22.05 trillion through bank accounts, electronic wallets and QRIS payments.

Although total turnover was 12.9% lower than in the first half of 2025, the number of detected transactions increased sharply, partly reflecting stronger monitoring of smaller and repeated payments. Deposit value also rose by around 26% year-on-year.

Indonesia’s latest approach therefore shifts enforcement further from simply blocking gambling websites toward disrupting the financial infrastructure behind them. Linking enforcement to national identity numbers could make account replacement considerably more difficult, while also increasing compliance obligations for banks as authorities seek to cut the flow of funds sustaining illegal online gambling.