PREVENTION OF CRIMINAL ACTS OF MONEY LAUNDERING IN BANKS

National development carried out so far has been an ongoing development effort in order to create a just and prosperous society based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution. To achieve this goal, the implementation of development, including in the economic and financial fields. Economic activities that occur in society are essentially a series of extraordinary legal actions of various types, varieties, qualities and variations that are carried out between individuals, between companies, between countries and between groups in various volumes with high frequency at any time in various places. The role is good in terms of collecting funds from the community and channeling available funds to finance existing economic activities. Many forms of crime are committed within the scope of a country, whether committed by individuals or corporations. This form of crime produces considerable wealth, such as corruption, smuggling of goods or labor, embezzlement, narcotics, gambling, tax crimes, and so forth. In order not to reveal who is the perpetrator, the assets obtained from the above crimes are hidden from the origin by entering the assets into the financial system, especially in the banking system. This form is called money laundering. In this writing, the author wants to formulate a problem statement that will be discussed, namely concerning the role of banks in preventing money laundering. In this section the methods of conducting research is normative juridical. The role of banking institutions to prevent and detect the flow of dirty money that tries to enter the financial system