Authorities in Indonesia have warned that gambling is illegal and punishable by up to four years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Indonesia.- The government of Indonesia<\/strong> has issued a reminder warning that gambling is illegal in the country. Johnny Plate<\/strong>, communication and information technology minister, revealed in the Deddy Corbuzier podcast that since 2018 “534,138 online gambling accounts have been shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said a gambling syndicate allegedly running eight games and five websites was shut down earlier this month.\u00a0Meanwhile, eight people were arrested after a raid carried out on August 13. They’re accused of managing online gambling and providing support including marketing and customer service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under Article 303 of Indonesia’s Criminal Code, gambling is illegal and punishable by up to four years in prison, with up to six years for repeat offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authorities in Indonesia have warned that gambling is illegal and punishable by up to four years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indonesian authorities have reinforced their stringent anti-gambling regulations, reiterating that all forms of gambling are illegal and carry severe penalties, including up to four years imprisonment. This follows the shutdown of over 534,000 online gambling accounts since 2018 and recent enforcement actions against a syndicate, resulting in multiple arrests.","focusai_entities":"Johnny Plate","focusai_location":"Indonesia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.8), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Enforcement Efficacy","query":"What metrics beyond account shutdowns indicate the efficacy of Indonesia's enforcement strategy against online gambling, particularly concerning the disruption of B2B supply chains supporting these operations?"},{"label":"Regional Spillover Risk","query":"How might Indonesia's stringent anti-gambling stance and enforcement actions influence regulatory postures or cross-border compliance challenges for iGaming operators in neighboring Southeast Asian markets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911,4138,23909],"class_list":["post-32910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling","tag-slot-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32922,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32910\/revisions\/32922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}