Indonesia Won’t Freeze Dormant Bank Accounts Holding Corrupt Funds, Relieved Minister Confirms

A visibly relieved minister has confirmed that Indonesia’s latest push to freeze dormant bank accounts will not apply to accounts holding corruption money. The initiative, led by the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), is "designed to protect the public — and that includes corrupt officials,” the minister explained, while scrolling through his phone to find where he downloaded his seven mobile banking apps.

Under the new policy, accounts that have remained inactive for three to twelve months may be frozen. However, funds are reportedly still “safe” and can be reclaimed if the account owner submits an objection form to PPATK. The form, available at http://bit.ly/FormHensem, was inaccessible at the time of publication, possibly due to heavy traffic.

 “There's no suspicious activity because there's no activity at all"

“PPATK is doing incredible work and certainly keeping themselves busy,” the minister added. “Besides looking for bank accounts with suspicious or criminal activity. they're now also looking for dormant bank accounts! They've got a lot of work ahead of them!" When asked if it means the minister who is a corrupt suspect, whether his bank account will be investigated due to suspicious or criminal activity. "Of course not. There's no suspicious activity because there's no activity at all. It's just dormant because I had to leave it alone for a while after you media guys kept talking about me."