Jakarta, Nov. 19 -- A member of Commission VI of the House of Representatives (DPR), Rivqy Abdul Halim, urged the government to immediately form a task force for digital consumer protection to curb online shopping fraud.

He assessed that the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs, the Financial Services Authority (OJK), the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), and the state-owned telecommunications company Telkom need to synergize to form this task force.

Halim underscored here on Wednesday that online shopping fraud methods have increasingly become more sophisticated.

He cited a statement from the OJK, which recorded 56,154 reports of online shopping fraud with total losses of up to...