Learn from Gogon, Moneylender's Debt Makes Heir Sell House Rp. 3.5 Billion My Money – 2 days ago


Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Shocking news emerged from the family of the late Gogon (Magono), the legendary Indonesian comedian who died in 2018. The Gogon family is now forced to sell the luxury house worth IDR 3.5 billion that Gogon inherited, because of debts from loan sharks.

According to Nova, Gogon's son, the house was actually intended to be used as a boarding house, but after going through various considerations, Gogon decided to turn the residence into a cheap hotel at a rate of IDR 150 thousand to IDR 200 thousand per night.

When Gogon takes care of SIUP and other matters related to business legality, Gogon is called the Almighty.


Now, Nova is still trying to sell the house because of the heavy costs of maintaining the house and the debt burden that Gogon inherited from his family. He also offered it to several of his father's colleagues, one of whom was Cak Lontong, but Cak Lontong said that he had to discuss this with his wife first.

“There is a debt, the debt is also from a loan shark, it's scary,” said Nova in a video on Inserthilite.

“The interest is also scary, it's more than the bank, you know. A loan of Rp. 1 billion, if you think about it, it's already more than 2 (Rp. 2 billion). Finally, we talked amicably (with the loan shark), 'When it's called like that, if you want to go to the legal realm, then go to law “The loan shark's name is 'nekak gulu,' (strangles the neck), trap the flowers, it's better to just sell (the house),” continued Nova.

Reportedly, many parties had bid on Gogon's house but in the end no one agreed to buy it.

Debts are inherited, but what about loan shark debts?

As is often explained, debt is a product of promises that must be kept. When the debtor dies, this financial burden must be paid off by his heirs.

However, when someone acts like a bank in the sense of collecting public funds in the form of savings, and distributing these funds like credit, this is tantamount to breaking the law.

Article 46 paragraph (1) Law 10/1998, which states:

Anyone who collects funds from the public in the form of savings without a business permit from the Management of Bank Indonesia as intended in Article 16, is threatened with imprisonment for a minimum of 5 years and a maximum of 15 years and a fine of at least IDR 10 billion and a maximum of IDR 200 billion.

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