Indonesia orders banks to use ID numbers to spot accounts linked to illegal online gambling

Indonesia has told banks to use identification numbers to detect accounts tied to illegal online gambling. For PSPs, acquirers, and banks working anywhere near high-risk flows, that means account screening is no longer just a name-matching problem.

1. Banks in Indonesia are now required to use identification numbers when looking for accounts associated with illegal online gambling. The practical point is obvious: names can be messy, duplicated, or transliterated; ID numbers give the bank a cleaner identifier to match against internal records.
2. The measure targets accounts linked to illegal online gambling, which puts it squarely in the same operational bucket as other high-risk monitoring problems: detecting suspect accounts, tightening onboarding checks, and reducing the chance that bad actors keep opening new rails under slightly different identities.
3. The source does not provide further implementation details, timing, or enforcement mechanics. So the only safe reading is that Indonesia is pushing banks toward stronger identity-based screening for gambling-related activity, with the burden landing on the bank’s existing detection and compliance stack.