The Ministry of Communication and Informatics claims to have blocked 11,333 pieces of “online gambling content” from July 13 to 19, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India.-\u00a0Budie Arie<\/strong>, Indonesia’s communication and informatics minister, has reported that the ministry\u00a0blocked 11,333 pieces of “illegal online gambling content” from July 13 to 19, 2023. It’s not clear what is meant by “content”, but it is likely that it refers to social media posts and adverts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During a press conference, Arie said the ministry had taken down 846,047<\/strong> online gambling-related content\u00a0since 2018 and had received 1,859 complaints related to bank account misappropriation linked to gambling-related content through the cekrekening.id platform from January to July 17, 2023. These complaints constituted a large part of the 1,914 total complaints registered in 2023 so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arie said the ministry would continue to crack down on all forms of gambling-related content, including in the virtual realm. He said the takedowns were based on the ministry’s cyber patrol findings and public or ministry agency complaints. In cases where such content is found on social media platforms, the ministry engages with the platform organizers to take down the material. Sanctions can be used if platforms refuse to cooperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ministry of Communication and Informatics claims to have blocked 11,333 pieces of “online gambling content” from July 13 to 19, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Informatics has intensified its crackdown on \"illegal online gambling content,\" blocking over 11,000 pieces in a single week and nearly 850,000 since 2018. The ministry is also addressing a significant volume of bank account misappropriation complaints linked to such content and is prepared to sanction social media platforms that fail to cooperate with takedown requests.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Communication and Informatics, Budie Arie","focusai_location":"Indonesia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.95), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Platform Sanction Details?","query":"What specific sanctions or enforcement mechanisms will Indonesia apply to social media platforms that fail to comply with content takedown requests, and what precedent does this set for platform liability in other jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Regulatory Scope Expansion?","query":"Given the broad definition of 'online gambling content,' how might this regulatory scope expand to impact adjacent digital entertainment verticals or B2B iGaming services in Indonesia, and what are the implications for market participants?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777007500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777007500","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=777007500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777007500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777007507,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777007500\/revisions\/777007507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777007500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777007500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777007500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}