{"id":777017440,"date":"2024-07-22T09:35:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777017440"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:58:16","slug":"indonesian-ministry-of-transportation-warns-officials-against-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesian-ministry-of-transportation-warns-officials-against-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian Ministry of Transportation warns officials against gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ministry has issued a circular letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia.- The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation has issued circular Letter No. SE-MHB 3 of 2024 on the prevention of online gambling and all other forms of gambling. This measure is a follow-up to Presidential Decree No. 21\u00a0which created a <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-to-create-cross-border-gambling-task-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">task force to tackle online gambling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressed to employees of the Ministry of Transportation, including civil servants (ASN), the circular requests senior officials, middle-level officials, heads of technical implementation units, and university leaders prioritise the prevention of online gambling and all other forms of gambling within their respective work units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, authorities asked network access point (NAP) service providers to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-orders-cut-on-internet-lines-for-online-gambling-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cut off access to internet lines<\/a>\u00a0from Cambodia and the Philippines used for online gambling. Gambling in Indonesia is illegal for both citizens and foreigners. Anyone found gambling can face severe fines and\/or imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-blocks-5000-bank-accounts-tied-to-online-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indonesia blocks 5,000 bank accounts tied to online gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ministry has issued a circular letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation has issued Circular Letter No. SE-MHB 3 of 2024, mandating its employees to prioritize the prevention of online and all other forms of gambling. This directive reinforces the nation's stringent anti-gambling stance, following a Presidential Decree establishing a task force and previous actions to block foreign online gambling access and freeze related bank accounts. The measure underscores Indonesia's commitment to regulatory enforcement against illicit gaming operations.","focusai_entities":"Indonesian Ministry of Transportation, Presidential Decree No. 21","focusai_location":"Indonesia, Cambodia, Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.75), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Inter-agency Coordination","query":"What specific mechanisms facilitate the coordination between the Ministry of Transportation, the Presidential Task Force, and financial institutions in Indonesia's comprehensive strategy to combat online gambling?"},{"label":"Regional Impact Assessment","query":"How might Indonesia's intensified regulatory enforcement, including network access point blocking and bank account freezes, influence the operational strategies and compliance frameworks of iGaming operators and B2B suppliers in neighboring Southeast Asian jurisdictions like Cambodia and the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777017440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017440","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=777017440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017450,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017440\/revisions\/777017450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}