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Cakradana is an AI platform to detect risky political funding -πŸ†3rd Winner TrackAML 2.0 Hackathon Open Sector Category by PPATK

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Empowering Clean & Transparent Elections with AI-Powered AML Detection

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🎯 About Cakradana

Cakradana is an artificial intelligence (AI) system specifically designed to enhance transparency and detect risks in election financing in Indonesia. This platform uses advanced technology to analyze, process, and visualize political donation data in real-time.

The name "Cakradana" is derived from Sanskrit meaning "wheel of giving" - symbolizing the cycle of transparency in a healthy democratic system.

Cakradana in Action - AI-Powered Election Finance Transparency


πŸ† TrackAML 2.0 Achievement

TrackAML 2.0 Hackathon 2025 is a national innovation competition organized by PPATK (Indonesia's Financial Intelligence Unit) as part of the Gerakan Nasional APUPPT & PPSPM β€” Indonesia's national movement against money laundering and terrorism financing. The hackathon challenges participants to build AI- and technology-driven solutions across three themes: Environmental & Financial Sustainability (e.g. illegal carbon trading), Organized Crime & Transparency (corruption, fraud, suspicious transaction monitoring), and Transnational Crime Prevention (human trafficking, narcotics, terrorism financing). It runs two competition tracks β€” a Public/Private Sector track for government agencies and financial institutions, and an Open Sector track for academics, researchers, startups, and students β€” culminating in a final competition and awarding ceremony.

Cakradana was submitted for TrackAML 2.0 Hackathon hosted by PPATK (Pusat Pelaporan dan Analisis Transaksi Keuangan), Indonesia's Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center and achieved πŸ₯‰ 3rd Winner in the Open Sector category.

πŸ’° Prize Awarded: IDR 20,000,000 (~USD 1,200) for our innovative AI-powered solution for election finance transparency.

This recognition validates our commitment to building innovative solutions for financial transparency and anti-money laundering in Indonesia's electoral system.

Cakradana receiving the 3rd Winner award

*The award was directly presented by the Head of PPATK, Dr. Ivan Yustiavandana, S.H., LL.M., to the Cakradana team at the TrackAML 2.0 International Hackathon awarding ceremony.* (Official PPATK bio)


🎬 Project Showcase Video

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❌ The Problem: Political Donations Slip Through the AML Radar

Political campaign financing in Indonesia is highly exposed to money laundering β€” smurfing, donations disguised as "self-funded" contributions, proxy accounts, and unclear donor identities that regulators cannot trace back to their source.

According to Indonesia Corruption Watch (2023), corruption cases tied to public-fund misuse rose 15% year-over-year, with potential state losses reaching into the trillions of rupiah. Existing AML systems were built to monitor banking transactions, not political donation patterns β€” they can't map donor↔candidate relationships or cross-check campaign reports against real transaction data.

The scale of the blind spot:

  • 27.8 million transaction reports reached PPATK in 2022 β€” yet only 0.3% were categorized as Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR).
  • 90–95% of AML system alerts are false positives, creating heavy compliance workload with low efficiency.
  • The average time to detect and report money laundering activity is 151 days.
  • Rp195 billion in foreign funds were traced into the accounts of 21 political parties ahead of the 2024 election β€” despite foreign campaign funding being illegal.
  • PPATK flagged suspicious transactions tied to 100 legislative candidates totaling Rp51.4 trillion, with no visibility into donor identity or fund routing.

Root cause: KPU, PPATK, and political parties each hold a piece of the data, but no integrated system connects the dots, reads the transaction patterns, or surfaces hidden money-laundering practices β€” so everything can look legitimate on paper.


βœ… How Cakradana Solves It

Cakradana is an AI-powered monitoring and risk-detection system built to close this blind spot end-to-end:

  • 🎯 Real-Time Donation Risk Scoring β€” a LightGBM machine learning model scores every donation 0–100 in real time, achieving over 85% accuracy in flagging potentially suspicious activity such as smurfing or layered donations.
  • πŸ“„ Multi-Source Data Integration β€” digital donation forms and paper-based forms are unified into structured data via OCR (Tesseract.js), so no submission channel is a blind spot.
  • 🧠 NLP-Powered Standardization β€” a self-hosted, open-source LLM (DeepSeek) cleans and standardizes the unstructured text extracted by OCR into analyzable data.
  • πŸ•ΈοΈ Interactive Network Visualization β€” a graph interface maps relationships between donors (individuals, companies, parties) and recipients, making complex donation networks easy to explore and audit.
  • πŸ›‘οΈ Candidate Verification Dashboard β€” candidates and recipients can log in to confirm or dispute flagged transactions, adding a human verification layer on top of automated detection.
  • πŸ“‹ Standardized Suspicious Activity Reports β€” findings are exported in PPATK/FATF-compliant SAR format, ready for regulatory action.
  • πŸ”’ On-Premise Deployment β€” runs on-premise to meet government-grade data security requirements.

Measured impact:

Metric Before With Cakradana
Suspicious transaction detection rate 0.3% ~5% (17x improvement)
Reporting turnaround time 151 days Under 14 days
False positive rate 90–95% ~30–45%

Beyond the numbers, Cakradana increases public transparency through interactive donation network visualizations and strengthens candidate accountability with a complete digital audit trail.


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πŸ“š Repository Overview

Cakradana spans six repositories β€” three that run the platform, and three that publish the data and models behind it:

Repository Description Tech Stack Deployment / Model
cakradana-web Frontend: real-time dashboard, donation network graph, review queue, risk reports Next.js 15, React 18, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, D3.js, Cloudflare Workers cakradana.faizath.com
cakradana-api Backend REST API: three-channel ingestion (digital form, OCR'd paper, web scrape), entity resolution, disputes, notifications Node.js, Express 4, MongoDB, Mongoose, JWT, Docker cakradana-api.faizath.com
cakradana-ai Risk engine: versioned statutory rules plus behavioural scoring lanes over 49 shared features Python 3.10, FastAPI, LightGBM, scikit-learn, pandas Self-hosted service
cakradana-kpu-filings-14k-pages Dataset: 14,540 KPU campaign-finance filing pages for OCR and structured extraction; 3,333 PII-bearing pages withheld Python, WebDataset, Hugging Face Datasets πŸ€— Dataset
cakradana-v1-ocr-deepseek-3b-adapter LoRA adapter reading scanned filings β€” median CER 0.351 β†’ 0.144 on held-out hosts PEFT, LoRA, Unsloth, transformers, DeepSeek-OCR πŸ€— Model
cakradana-v1-docie-deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b-adapter LoRA adapter turning filing text into structured donation records β€” fabrication rate 0.643 β†’ 0.000 PEFT, LoRA, Unsloth, transformers, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B πŸ€— Model

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