Jakarta, June 25 (Antara) - The government will set up investment-alert task forces in the region to overcome rampant illegal investment practices that offer fictitious business opportunities to the public in the region.
The regional investment-alert task force will follow the central government's Investment-alert Task Force formed in 2007 to tackle illegal investment practices.
Seven ministries/institutions are involved as members of the central government's Investment-alert Task Force. These are the Financial Service Authority (OJK), the Trade Ministry, the Communication and Informatics Ministry, and the Cooperatives and Small Enterprises Ministry, apart from the Attorney General, the National Police and the Capital Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM).
The main task of the regional investment-alert task force is to prevent and handle illegal investment practices that are rampant in many regions of the country.
Therefore, the government, through the Investment-alert Task Force of the seven ministries/institutions, will set up the same task forces in the region.
"The main job of the Regional Investment-alert Task Force is to take stock of cases in the region and report it to regulators and disseminate the information about it to other regions," Muliaman D. Hadad, chairman of the Council of Commissioners of the OJK, said.
He made the statement after the signing of a Letter of Joint Decision (SKB) by the seven ministries/institutions involved in the Investment-alert Task Force in Jakarta on Tuesday (June 21).
The task force needs to pay attention to cases that breach the law.
The regional representatives of the seven ministries/institutions that formed the central government's Investment-alert Task Force will represent the Regional Investment-alert Task Force teams, Muliaman said.
The regional task force serves as a means of coordination between the OJK office in the region and the regional government institutions or services.
Money collection activities or money games disguised as cooperatives, bogus multi-level marketing (MLM) firms, and gold businesses, are operating in many cities or villages.
The main task of the regional investment-alert task force is to speed up the handling and prevention of those fictitious investment activities by deploying law enforcers and regulators in the region.
He would soon instruct regional police to coordinate with the regional offices of the OJK, the BKPM and the high prosecutor office to help the regional investment task force carry out its tasks, National Police Chief General Badrodin Haiti said.
"The exchange of information in the region is important for enabling the task force to work effectively. We are preventing illegal investments in the region because we need to carry out supervision while popularizing the task force," General Badrodin said.
Data available at the Attorney General's Office up to June 2016 showed that there were 640 reports on fictitious investments. Attention should be given to this, because they develop with the presence of effective technology.
"With technological sophistication, fictitious business operators can use different facilities to tempt people with big profit sharing promises that could eventually entice and victimize them. The task force should prevent this," Attorney General HM Prasetyo said.
There are 406 illegal companies that need to watch out. Regulators also need to have the same perception in this regard, not only at the central government level but also in the region, the attorney general said.
Based on the OJK report, up to June 11, 2016, people have asked for information or questioned the legality of 430 companies offering investment opportunities.
Of the number, 374 offered financial investments such as gold, foreign exchange, e-money, and e-commerce, apart from hajj and minor hajj investment.
The other 56 offered investments in the property sector and the plantation and commodity business.
Meanwhile, the OJK hopes the authority of the Investment-alert Task Force will be reinforced with a strong legal umbrella so that it would carry out its supervision task effectively.
The Investment-alert Task Force still has flaws that illegal investment operators could take advantage of, because so far the government institutions involved in the task force were not yet equipped with a legal umbrella, Policy and Investigation Support Director of the OJK Tongam L Tobing said.
"The authority of the task force can be strengthened, for example, through a presidential regulation," Tongam said in Bogor, West Java, on Sunday (June 5).
The number of illegal investment business entities continued to increase, he said. In 2014, a total of 262 were found to be involved, while in 2016 it rose to 406.
The matter could happen possibly because they could take advantage of loopholes existing within the authority of the task force. "For instance, cooperatives which are under the supervision of the ministry of cooperatives obtained a license to operate in City A, but they were also doing illegal business in City B. The party which provided it with the license could not act against it," Tongam remarked.
The request for providing the Investment-alert Task Force with a legal umbrella is still being discussed, Tongam said.
Currently, the operation of the OJK task force is still based on the Letter of Joint Decision (SKB) of the seven ministries/institutions involved in the Investment-alert Task Force.
Investment supervision is the main task of the seven ministries/institutions, the SKB stressed. "So far, the seven institutions see investment supervision as the task of the OJK only," he said. ***3*** (A014/INE)EDITED BY INE(T.SYS/A/BESSR/F. Assegaf) 25-06-2016 11:54:39 |
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