Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – WhatsApp has now become one of the mainstay ways for fraudsters to find and trap their victims. The government and cellular operators actually have a solution to eradicate fraudsters on WhatsApp. Unfortunately, the solution is crude.
The Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) said that fraudsters on WhatsApp could actually be cleaned up if applications like WhatsApp were required to collaborate with cellular operators.
Director General of PPI Kominfo Wayan Toni Supriyanto, during a press conference at the Kominfo Office Wednesday (15/11/2023), talked about the planned regulations during the drafting of the Job Creation Law.
The government wants to require cooperation between global Over-The-Top (OTT) companies and opsel. However, because the time given was 3 months until the decision was made, Wayan revealed that there was tremendous pressure from this global business actor.
This OTT service provider does not want any cooperation obligations. Even if there is, they don’t want to create a communications business as per the Telecommunications Law.
“Actually, the draft was completed in the first month. However, in the next 2 months there was extraordinary pressure from global business actors,” he explained.
Google, Facebook, US government representatives sent letters to Kominfo. The letter was sent in order to ensure that global digital service providers do not have to regulate and collaborate with cellular operators.
“Finally, from the results, the last sentence is to regulate cooperation patterns,” said Wayan.
It’s useless if the number is blocked
Wayan explained that without cooperation, efforts to eradicate fraudsters by blocking telephone numbers would be in vain because of the existence of WhatsApp.
“And all this time they have become, sorry, like now WhatsApp, even if we move our number, for example going abroad, using an Indonesian number and then going abroad to buy a new card, the WhatsApp number can still be used,” explained Wayan. “This means that the cellular card we have only generates a signal.”
So when a crime is committed by a number that has been registered on WhatsApp, the Ministry of Communication and Information cannot make any efforts.
If the number still appears which is used for crime, he just changes his face or uses someone else’s face, while the number still appears.
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