JAKARTA – Indonesia and China are encouraged to strengthen police cooperation to pursue transnational cybercrime syndicates. This pressure comes after more and more online fraud cases use Indonesia as an operating location.
Member of the Indonesian Parliament Bambang Soesatyo (Bamsoet) said that the cooperation between the National Police and the Chinese Police was important because the pattern of digital crime was no longer moving in one region.
“The perpetrators can be in one country, the server in another country, and the victims are spread across various regions. Without cross-jurisdictional collaboration, law enforcement will always be behind,” said Bamsoet when receiving the Chinese Embassy Police Attache for Indonesia, Police Commissioner Class II Yang Chunyan, in Jakarta, Friday, April 24.
Bamsoet said the Ministry of Communication and Digital Data recorded more than 120 thousand online fraud reports throughout 2024 to early 2026. The estimated loss of the community is estimated to reach IDR 2.6 trillion.
The modus varies. From fake investments, perpetrators who claim to be officers by phone, to social engineering on digital platforms.
According to the Chairman of the 15th MPR RI, a number of raids in Batam, Bali, and Jakarta show that Indonesia is not only a market for victims. Indonesian territory is also used as a place of work for digital fraud syndicates that target victims abroad.
“Handling transnational crimes like this requires a comprehensive approach, ranging from prevention, enforcement, to system improvement. We can’t work alone,” said Bamsoet.
He assessed that cooperation with China needs to be directed at more technical matters. Not just meetings between officials. The form can be in the form of exchanging intelligence data, strengthening digital investigations, and joint legal mechanisms.
This step is considered important so that the police can track the flow of funds, read the pattern of the network, and move simultaneously when the perpetrators are in several countries.
“What we face is not ordinary crime, but organized crime with high technology. Therefore, law enforcement cooperation must be more adaptive, including in the use of digital forensics, artificial intelligence, and cross-border transaction tracking systems,” said Bamsoet.
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