{"id":777014875,"date":"2024-04-19T08:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014875"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:00:22","slug":"indonesia-to-create-task-force-against-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-to-create-task-force-against-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia to create task force against online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The new government task force is expected to be formed within a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia.-\u00a0<strong>Budie Arie Setiadi<\/strong>, Indonesia\u2019s communication and informatics minister, has announced that a new task force will be established\u00a0within a week to<strong> tackle online gambling in the country<\/strong>. It will focus on removing online gambling sites, while law enforcement officials will handle enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was made after a meeting between Setiadi and president<strong> Joko Widodo<\/strong>.  The government is concerned about the<strong> high circulation of money from online gambling<\/strong>, which reached Rp327tn (US$20.19bn) in 2023. In February, Setiadi asked representatives from the Singapore office of social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to automate the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-asks-x-to-develop-system-to-take-down-gambling-ads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">removal of gambling ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new government task force is expected to be formed within a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":13190,"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 is establishing a new government task force, led by Communication and Informatics Minister Budie Arie Setiadi, to combat online gambling within the country. The initiative will focus on site removal, with law enforcement handling direct enforcement, following concerns over the Rp327tn (US$20.19bn) circulated through online gambling in 2023. This strategic move underscores a heightened regulatory stance against unregulated iGaming activities.","focusai_entities":"Budie Arie Setiadi, Joko Widodo, X","focusai_location":"Indonesia, Singapore","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Task Force Technical Measures?","query":"What specific technical measures will the task force employ for site removal, and how will this impact DNS or IP blocking strategies for unregulated iGaming platforms?"},{"label":"Impact on Capital Flows?","query":"How will this intensified enforcement affect the capital flows and payment processing ecosystems currently supporting unregulated iGaming in Indonesia, particularly concerning AML compliance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777014875","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\/777014875","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=777014875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014878,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014875\/revisions\/777014878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}