{"id":777014970,"date":"2024-04-24T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014970"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:52:15","slug":"3-2m-indonesians-engaged-in-online-gambling-government-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/3-2m-indonesians-engaged-in-online-gambling-government-says","title":{"rendered":"3.2m Indonesians engaged in online gambling, government says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The government estimates that illegal gambling was worth Rp 327tn in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia.- It&#8217;s been estimated that 3.2 million Indonesians are involved in some form of online gambling.\u00a0The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) reported that 80 per cent of these gamblers place bets amounting to less than Rp100,000\u00a0while\u00a0the cumulative turnover from illicit gambling was Rp327tn in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs\u00a0<strong>Hadi Tjahjanto<\/strong>\u00a0the rise in online gambling was due to the accessibility of online slots\u00a0facilitated by mobile devices. He noted a shift to slots from previous preferences for credit and cash markets. <strong>Budie Arie Setiadi<\/strong>, Indonesia\u2019s communication and informatics minister, has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-to-create-task-force-against-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a new task force<\/a> to<strong>\u00a0tackle online gambling<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government estimates that illegal gambling was worth Rp 327tn in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777013070,"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 government estimates illegal online gambling reached Rp 327 trillion in 2023, involving 3.2 million citizens, predominantly with small bets on online slots. In response to this significant illicit market, the communication and informatics minister has announced the formation of a new task force to combat online gambling.","focusai_entities":"Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), Hadi Tjahjanto, Budie Arie Setiadi","focusai_location":"Indonesia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Task Force Mandate?","query":"What specific powers, resources, and timelines will the new task force possess to effectively combat the Rp 327tn illegal online gambling market in Indonesia?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Impact?","query":"How might the government's aggressive stance against illegal gambling influence the potential development or acceleration of a regulated iGaming framework in Indonesia?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16333],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777014970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-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\/777014970","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=777014970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014995,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014970\/revisions\/777014995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777013070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}