{"id":777015757,"date":"2024-05-23T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015757"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:58:31","slug":"indonesia-removes-1-9m-pieces-of-online-gambling-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-removes-1-9m-pieces-of-online-gambling-content","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia removes 1.9m pieces of &#8216;online gambling content&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Much of the content was on Meta&#8217;s social media platforms.<\/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 between July 17,\u00a02023\u00a0and May 21, 2024, his ministry has removed 1.9m pieces of online gambling content. Warnings issued to Meta led the company to remove 1.65m pieces of\u00a0online gambling content and 450,000 advertisements between August and October.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry has also asked the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and Bank Indonesia (BI) to block bank accounts and digital wallets linked to online gambling. The OJK has proposed blocking 5,364 bank accounts, and BI has proposed blocking 555 digital wallets.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April,\u00a0president\u00a0Joko Widodo ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-to-create-task-force-against-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the creation of\u00a0a task force<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0tackle online gambling. It will focus on removing online gambling sites. According to Jakarta Globe, the task force, to be\u00a0led by the coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs,\u00a0<strong>Hadi Tjahjanto<\/strong>, will be established within one to two weeks. Budi Arie Setiadi will lead the prevention division and national police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo will lead the enforcement division.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the content was on Meta&#8217;s social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25349,"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 removed 1.9 million pieces of online gambling content, with Meta alone removing 1.65 million following warnings. Concurrently, the Financial Services Authority and Bank Indonesia are blocking thousands of bank accounts and digital wallets linked to illicit gambling operations. This intensified regulatory action culminates in President Widodo's directive to establish a dedicated task force to combat online gambling sites, signaling a comprehensive governmental crackdown.","focusai_entities":"Budie Arie Setiadi, Meta, Financial Services Authority (OJK), Bank Indonesia (BI), Joko Widodo, Hadi Tjahjanto, Listyo Sigit Prabowo, Ministry of Communication and Informatics, Jakarta Globe","focusai_location":"Indonesia, Jakarta","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.9), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.75), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Meta's Revenue?","query":"What is the estimated financial impact on Meta's advertising revenue from the removal of 450,000 online gambling advertisements in Indonesia, and how might this influence platform content policies globally?"},{"label":"Task Force Mandate Scope?","query":"Beyond content and financial blocking, what specific enforcement powers and jurisdictional reach will Indonesia's new inter-ministerial task force possess, and what are the projected timelines for its operational impact on the grey market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777015757","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\/777015757","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=777015757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015777,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015757\/revisions\/777015777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777015757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}