{"id":777022287,"date":"2025-01-23T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777022287"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:28:30","slug":"indonesia-reports-decline-in-illegal-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-reports-decline-in-illegal-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia reports decline in illegal online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs attributed the decline to the government’s efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Indonesia.- The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has reported a decline in illegal online gambling detected in the country. In a meeting with Commission I of the House of Representatives (DPR), Alexander Sabar<\/strong>, the ministry’s director general of digital space supervision, said online gambling transactions amounted to Rp4tn in the third quarter of 2024, down from Rp21tn (US$1.29bn) in the first quarter and Rp16tn in the second. However, numbers are likely to be very rough estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2017 to January 21, 2025, the ministry has acted against 5,707,952 pieces of digital content related to online gambling. Earlier this month, Molly Prabawaty<\/strong>, acting general director of Public Communication and Media at the Ministry of Communication and Digital Technology (Komdigi), said that between January 1 and January 6, her ministry acted against\u00a043,063 pieces of digital content related to online gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gambling in Indonesia is illegal\u00a0for both citizens and foreigners. The government has also implemented a monitoring system using artificial intelligence to\u00a0detect websites associated with online gambling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December, Indonesia\u2019s Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs met with the PPATK and mobile operators to discuss two potential actions against\u00a0illegal online gambling<\/strong>: a public awareness campaign to communicate that gambling can cause financial difficulties and a measure to prevent people from paying for gambling via phone credits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs attributed the decline to the government’s efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19395,"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 Digital Affairs reports a significant decline in illegal online gambling transactions, from Rp21tn (US$1.29bn) in Q1 2024 to Rp4tn in Q3 2024, attributing this to government enforcement efforts. The ministry has actively removed millions of pieces of digital content and implemented AI monitoring, alongside plans for public awareness campaigns and payment channel restrictions.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, House of Representatives (DPR), Alexander Sabar, Molly Prabawaty, PPATK, Komdigi","focusai_location":"Indonesia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Enforcement Impact Analysis","query":"What specific methodologies beyond content removal and AI monitoring are being considered by the Indonesian government to sustain the reported decline in illegal online gambling GGR?"},{"label":"Payment Channel Efficacy","query":"How will the proposed restriction on gambling payments via phone credits be technically enforced, and what are the anticipated challenges in preventing alternative payment methods from being exploited for illegal transactions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777022287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022287","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=777022287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777022296,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022287\/revisions\/777022296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777022287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777022287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777022287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}