Indonesia’s Catholic Youth has pledged to work with the government in eradicating online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Indonesia.- Stefanus Asat Gusma<\/strong>, general chair of the PP Catholic Youth has met with Budi Arie Setiadi<\/strong>, minister of communications and information technology, to express his willingness to collaborate with the government in actions against online gambling. Asat Gusma said the Catholic youth would conduct preventive initiatives<\/strong>, such as outreach and education, targeting younger people, to raise awareness about the negative impacts of online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the meeting, Asat Gusma said: “Catholic youth appreciate the Ministry of Communication and Information which in a short time was able to eradicate online gambling. Catholic youth will also be proactive in reporting all forms of online gambling activities to the authorities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In June, president\u00a0Joko Widodo <\/strong>created a\u00a0task force to tackle online gambling<\/a>. The government also asked network access point (NAP) service providers to cut off access to internet lines<\/a> from Cambodia and the Philippines used for online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gambling is banned in Indonesia and is illegal for both citizens and foreigners. There are no legal casinos in the country and anyone found gambling can face severe fines and imprisonment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indonesia’s Catholic Youth has pledged to work with the government in eradicating online gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777015964,"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 Catholic Youth has pledged collaboration with the government to combat online gambling, initiating preventive education and proactive reporting. This initiative supports the government's broader crackdown, which includes a presidential task force and directives for NAP providers to sever access to offshore gambling lines, reinforcing the nation's strict anti-gambling stance.","focusai_entities":"Catholic Youth, PP Catholic Youth, Stefanus Asat Gusma, Budi Arie Setiadi, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Joko Widodo, network access point (NAP) service providers","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 (0.8), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Efficacy","query":"What specific metrics will the Indonesian government use to assess the efficacy of this multi-stakeholder task force and infrastructure-level blocking in reducing illegal online gambling GGR?"},{"label":"Cross-Border Implications","query":"How will the directive for Network Access Point (NAP) providers to cut internet lines from Cambodia and the Philippines impact regional B2B\/B2C licensing frameworks and the operational resilience of regulated iGaming hubs?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777017691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017691","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=777017691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017715,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017691\/revisions\/777017715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777015964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}