{"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":"2024-04-19T08:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:22:55","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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[23911,4138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014875"}],"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}]}}