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Vice Minister of Finance Calls for Collaboration with PPATK: Focus on Money Laundering

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Deputy Minister of Finance Suahasil Nazara said several reports from the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) were part of the collaboration between the two institutions. According to him, the Ministry of Finance and PPATK have two streams of cooperation that focus on money laundering crimes or TPPU.

First, Suahasil explained, the Ministry of Finance always asks PPATK to notify individual employees who wish to get promotions and transfers, about alleged violations. This cooperation has been carried out continuously since 2007.

He said that from 2007-2023, there were 266 exchanges of reports submitted by PPATK to the Ministry of Finance or reports requested by the Ministry of Finance to PPATK. “We asked PPATK for information,” he said in a press conference at the Kemenkopolhukam Office, Central Jakarta, on Friday, March 10, 2023.

In addition to the first stream, which details transactions and analysis, the Ministry of Finance also has cooperation where the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DGCE) also have direct connections with PPATK. The aim is to optimize security and ensure state revenue rights.

According to Suahasil, this usually relates to taxpayers, payers, or parties who are supposed to pay taxes or duties to the state. This cooperation, he said, couldrecover or requesting a refund of IDR 7.08 trillion.

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