UNS – Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta, and the Center for Fintech and Banking UNS (UNS Fintech Center) is hosting another International Webinar in Financial Crime, Fraud, dan Cyber-Security, Tuesday (28/7/2020). The International Webinar is conducted in collaboration with the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK RI) and broadcasted through Zoom Cloud Meeting, Universitas Sebelas Maret YouTube Channel, and UNS Fintech Center Instagram Live.
Led by Yoshia Christian Mahulete, this event is opened by the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho. In his remarks, Prof. Jamal hopes that this event can be useful for all participants, who come from various backgrounds such as auditor, students, lecturers, researchers, and many others.
Following the opening remarks, a Keynote Speech was delivered by the Chairman of the BPK RI, Dr. Agung Firman Sampurna, CSFA, entitled “Information Technology Development in Investigative / Forensic Audit to Improve Detection and Prevention of Fraud”. In his speech, Dr. Agung highlighting how BPK RI uses technology and digitization to detect and prevent fraud, one of them is by establishing the digital forensic laboratory. He also highlights the important role of auditor and investigator in the upcoming future given the significant shifts in the scope of financial audits, such as the emergence of digital and electronic evidence. Therefore, technological advances and digitalization must be balanced with increased capabilities and capacities of auditors and investigators.
After the keynote speech from Dr. Agung Firman Sampurna, CSFA, the event continues with the presentation from the 9 speakers from reputable universities. The speakers are Prof. Stuart Madnick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology – USA) delivering material on “What every manager should know about Cybersecurity”, Prof. John Goodell (University of Akron – USA) on the “Ethics value in machine learning profiling inputs”, Dr. Dominic Thomas-James (University of Cambridge – UK & Yale University Global Justice Program – USA) delivering material related to the “Corporate ownership regulation and the increasing transparency of beneficial ownership information in respect to legal entities”.
Following after there were Prof. Marianne Junger (University of Twente – Netherlands) on the “Crime scripts, business characteristics effort, and benefit of fraud”, Dr. David Chaikin (University of Sydney – Australia) discussing the “Big data and financial crime responses” highlighting the whistleblower paradigm. Afterward, there was a presentation from Dr. Baharom Abdul Hamid (INCEIF Malaysia) on financial crime in its relation with terrorist financing, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Aruzzi (Auditor in BPK RI) discussing the role of whistleblowing system in detecting fraud, Dr. Richard Alexander (SOAS University of London – UK) explaining one of the fraud happening in UK and US universities, and lastly Dr. Taufiq Arifin (Universitas Sebelas Maret – Indonesia) who took on the issue of “Fintech: Friend or foe of financial fraud”.
After the presentation from all speakers, the participants have the opportunity to ask questions through Zoom chatbox, Youtube live chat, and IG live chat. There were 9 questions selected and read by the moderator for each speaker. There are more than 6,000 people participated in this event, where 1,000 participants are joining through Zoom Cloud Meeting, almost 5,000 people watching through UNS Youtube Channel, and 85 participants connected through UNS Fintech Center IG Live. Humas UNS
Reporter: Dwi Hastuti