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Ada Pertanyaan? Hubungi Kami Kartini L. Makmur, Andin Aditya Rahman
As of June this year, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) has received 132 complaints against 40 companies accused of providing fake investment products including capital investments, shares, property, multilevel marketing, futures, and coal and gold investments
Muliaman D. Hadad, Chairman of OJK, stated that there are generally two types of target categories forbogus investment companies. Firstly, people that have no knowledge of the investment company’s licensing status. “Secondly, people that know the company’s licensing status but hope for big returns,” stated
Kusumaningtuti Sandriharmy, a member of the Board of Commissioners at the OJK, adding that gold investment products are most often used in fake investment products.
“One of the reasons for this is that in the past few years gold prices have soared rapidly,” explained Kusumaningtuti.
Kusumaningtuti further explained that the reports on the 40 bogus investment companies have been forwarded to the Investment Alert Task Force (Satgas), which includes members of the Indonesian National Police (Polri).
Out of the 40 cases, 29 were delegated to Polri as these cases indicate criminal aspects of fraud and embezzlement.
Sutito, Director of The Investor and Customer Protection Agency (Badan Perlindungan Investor dan Nasabah), affirmed that many people are fooled by false investment products due to minimal prevention efforts. He also asserted that prosecution efforts against bogus investment companies are not yet effective.
“Other than adversely affecting investors, this also destroys our financial industry,” stated Sutito.
In response to high hopes of prevention measures, Brigadier General Boy Rafly Amar, vowed that Polri is ready to be involved in prevention measures.
“Polri is very ready to provide support for Satgas in raising the public’s awareness. Polri is also ready to conduct community education in remote villages if provided with knowledge on investments,” he asserted.
According to Boy, there must be approaches to increase legal understanding and awareness in rural communities so that the level of understanding and awareness there is the same as in urban communities, such as Jakarta.
“It is important to raise public awareness so that the people don’t become victims,” Boy concluded.
(hot/kc)
Kartini L. Makmur, Andin Aditya Rahman
As of June this year, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) has received 132 complaints against 40 companies accused of providing fake investment products including capital investments, shares, property, multilevel marketing, futures, and coal and gold investments
Muliaman D. Hadad, Chairman of OJK, stated that there are generally two types of target categories forbogus investment companies. Firstly, people that have no knowledge of the investment company’s licensing status. “Secondly, people that know the company’s licensing status but hope for big returns,” stated
Kusumaningtuti Sandriharmy, a member of the Board of Commissioners at the OJK, adding that gold investment products are most often used in fake investment products.
“One of the reasons for this is that in the past few years gold prices have soared rapidly,” explained Kusumaningtuti.
Kusumaningtuti further explained that the reports on the 40 bogus investment companies have been forwarded to the Investment Alert Task Force (Satgas), which includes members of the Indonesian National Police (Polri).
Out of the 40 cases, 29 were delegated to Polri as these cases indicate criminal aspects of fraud and embezzlement.
Sutito, Director of The Investor and Customer Protection Agency (Badan Perlindungan Investor dan Nasabah), affirmed that many people are fooled by false investment products due to minimal prevention efforts. He also asserted that prosecution efforts against bogus investment companies are not yet effective.
“Other than adversely affecting investors, this also destroys our financial industry,” stated Sutito.
In response to high hopes of prevention measures, Brigadier General Boy Rafly Amar, vowed that Polri is ready to be involved in prevention measures.
“Polri is very ready to provide support for Satgas in raising the public’s awareness. Polri is also ready to conduct community education in remote villages if provided with knowledge on investments,” he asserted.
According to Boy, there must be approaches to increase legal understanding and awareness in rural communities so that the level of understanding and awareness there is the same as in urban communities, such as Jakarta.
“It is important to raise public awareness so that the people don’t become victims,” Boy concluded.
(hot/kc)