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Indonesia.-\u00a0Budie Arie Setiadi<\/strong>, Indonesia\u2019s communication and informatics minister, has announced that between July 17,\u00a02023\u00a0and September 17, 2024, his ministry removed 3,383,000 pieces of online gambling content. The ministry also submitted 20,842 keywords related to online gambling to Google\u00a0from November 7, 2023 to August 8, 2024\u00a0and 5,173 to Meta\u00a0from December 15, 2023 to August 8, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During a press conference, Arie also said he has asked the Bank Indonesia (BI) to block 573 digital wallets linked to online gambling<\/strong>. The government has implemented a monitoring system using artificial intelligence to detect websites associated with online gambling<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The ministry is also collaborating with the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) to stop the use of payment and banking systems<\/a> for online gambling. In addition, Arie also mentioned plans to restrict access to free virtual private networks (VPNs)<\/a> to prevent access to online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gambling in Indonesia is illegal for both citizens and foreigners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The content was blocked between July 17,\u00a02023\u00a0and September 17, 2024.<\/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,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Informatics has undertaken extensive measures to combat online gambling, removing over 3.3 million pieces of content and submitting thousands of keywords to major platforms. The government is also collaborating with financial authorities to block digital wallets and banking systems, and plans to restrict VPN access, underscoring a comprehensive enforcement strategy against illegal gambling. These actions highlight Indonesia's aggressive stance on regulatory compliance and market integrity within its jurisdiction.","focusai_entities":"Budie Arie Setiadi, Google, Meta, Bank Indonesia (BI), Financial Services Authority (OJK), Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK)","focusai_location":"Indonesia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.9), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Efficacy of AI Blocking","query":"What is the estimated efficacy rate of Indonesia's AI-powered monitoring system in detecting and blocking new online gambling content, and how does this compare to traditional enforcement methods?"},{"label":"Cross-border Payment Impact","query":"How will the planned restrictions on free VPNs and the blocking of digital wallets impact cross-border payment flows and the operational resilience of illicit online gambling platforms targeting Indonesian users?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,158,16333],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777019173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019173","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=777019173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777019187,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019173\/revisions\/777019187"}],"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=777019173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}