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Indonesia to Require Certifications for Crypto-Recommending Influencers

6/25/2026

Indonesia's financial regulator is moving to mandate that influencers who recommend cryptocurrency and other digital assets hold relevant certifications before doing so.

The rule marks a meaningful escalation of oversight targeting finfluencers — the social-media commentators who have become a primary channel through which retail investors discover and act on digital-asset ideas.

What the Certification Rule Requires The Indonesian financial regulator's new framework targets influencers specifically in the context of recommending crypto and digital assets, making certification a prerequisite for that activity.

The source does not detail which certifications will satisfy the requirement or who will administer them, but the direction is clear: informal promotion of digital assets will carry a compliance threshold it did not before.

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