Indonesia says 1.3m pieces of online gaming content removed since October 2024
The content was blocked between October 20, 2024 and April 23.
Indonesia.- Meutya Hafid, minister of communication and digital affairs (Komdigi), has announced that his ministry took action against 1,192,000 website links and IP addresses and 127,000 pieces of gambling contents on social media between October 20, 2024, and April 23, 2025,.
Meutya said the government had strengthened digital surveillance and law enforcement through collaboration with the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). The Komdigi also launched the Content Moderation Compliance System (SAMAN), which requires digital platforms to take action on high-risk content within four hours and other harmful content within 24 hours.
Gambling in Indonesia is illegal for both citizens and foreigners. Several ministers are collaborating with the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) to stop the use of payment and banking systems for online gambling. The government also implemented a monitoring system using artificial intelligence to detect websites associated with online gambling.
In April, a district court in Medan, North Sumatra, sentenced a woman named Indah Siska Sar to two and a half years in prison for breaching Article 45(3) of the 2024 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law. The student from Tanjung Pura in Langkat Regency was found to have promoted an online gambling site via her Instagram account. The court ordered her to pay a Rp50m (US$2,950) fine or serve an additional two months in jail if she fails to pay.
