Encircled by Digital Loan Sharks
Those running illegal online money lending businesses use applications and special equipment to entrap their customers. They receive funds from abroad and rake in trillions of rupiah.
Riky Ferdianto
November 1, 2021
THE engines and headlights of three cars in the parking lot of the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department building in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, were running on Monday, October 11. Ten plain-clothes police officers were inside the vehicles.
That night they were headed out to arrest people running illegal online money lending services. “We targeted eight locations,” said Sr. Comr. Andri Sudarmadi, Chief of Sub-d
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