Escape The Hack: Countering Cyber Scams with an Immersive Experience for Everyday Indonesians
Department of State
Indonesia faces a pervasive and evolving cybercrime threat, with online scams growing in number and sophistication – while U.S. families continue to lose their life’s savings to international cybercrime, totaling over $12 billions in financial losses in 2023 alone. Unlike scam compounds in mainland Southeast Asia, criminal scam operations in Indonesia are decentralized and embedded within transnational networks. Thousands of Indonesian nationals have worked in scam compounds in Cambodia, Burma, and Laos, and there is now concern crackdowns in other countries prompting a wave of experienced Indonesian scammers to return home to establish new operations in collaboration with Chinese and other
Funding
Award size
$100K – $1M
Award ceiling
300000
Type
Cooperative Agreement
Dates
Deadline
Closing this week
Posted
06/18/2026
Closes
2026-08-07
Eligibility
Eligibility
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Program
Funding area
Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)
Opportunity #
PAS-JAKARTA-FY26-04
Source
Status
Open
Market
Government
Level
Federal
Source
Grants.gov