{"id":777025701,"date":"2025-04-24T04:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777025701"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:35:45","slug":"indonesian-woman-sentenced-for-promoting-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesian-woman-sentenced-for-promoting-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian woman sentenced for promoting online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indah Siska Sari was found guilty of promoting online gambling sites on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia.- A district court in Medan, North Sumatra, has sentenced a woman named <strong>Indah Siska Sar<\/strong> to two and a half years in prison for breaching Article 45(3) of the 2024 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law. The student from Tanjung Pura in Langkat Regency was found to have promoted an\u00a0online gambling\u00a0site via her Instagram account. The court ordered her to pay a Rp50m (US$2,950) fine or serve an additional two months in jail if she fails to pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last October, Medan police received a tip-off and arrested the woman at Dazat Caf\u00e9 on Jalan Alfalah in East Medan. They said her Instagram contained posts promoting a gambling site called Hopeng. According to officers, Indah was paid Rp300,000 every 15 days and earned a total of Rp850,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Tempo, judge<strong> Vera Yetti Magdalena<\/strong> said that the actions of Indah Siska were against the government&#8217;s efforts to tackle online gambling. Indah showed remorse for her actions and has no prior criminal record, which the judge considered a mitigating factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indah and the Medan District Prosecutor&#8217;s Office have one week to decide if they will appeal the verdict. Prosecutor<strong> Vina Monica<\/strong> had asked for a three-year prison term and a fine of Rp15m, with an additional four months in jail if the fine was not paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gambling in Indonesia is illegal\u00a0for both citizens and foreigners. In March, <strong>Alexander Sabar<\/strong>, acting general director of Digital Space Supervision at the Ministry of Communication and Digital Technology (Komdigi) announced that between October 20, 2024 and March 8, his ministry acted against\u00a0<strong>1,118,849 instances of online gambling\u00a0<\/strong>content on digital platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/Industry-experts-doubt-that-Thailand-will-legalise-gambling-300x200.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-and-china-discuss-cooperation-against-online-gambling'>Thailand and China discuss cooperation against online gambling<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indah Siska Sari was found guilty of promoting online gambling sites on her Instagram account.<\/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":"An individual in Indonesia has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment and a significant fine for promoting an online gambling site via social media, under the 2024 Electronic Information and Transactions Law. This conviction underscores Indonesia's stringent regulatory stance against iGaming, with the Ministry of Communication and Digital Technology actively suppressing over a million instances of online gambling content. The case highlights escalating enforcement actions against illicit gambling promotion within the jurisdiction.","focusai_entities":"Indah Siska Sari, Medan District Court, Dazat Caf\u00e9, Hopeng, Tempo, Vera Yetti Magdalena, Vina Monica, Alexander Sabar, Ministry of Communication and Digital Technology (Komdigi)","focusai_location":"Indonesia, Medan, North Sumatra, Tanjung Pura, Langkat Regency, Thailand, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (1.0), marketing_crm (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Affiliate Networks","query":"What are the broader implications of this conviction for international iGaming affiliate networks operating in or targeting prohibitive jurisdictions, particularly concerning social media promotion and influencer marketing compliance?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Trends","query":"How does this specific conviction align with or diverge from the broader regulatory enforcement trends observed across Southeast Asia regarding online gambling promotion and digital content suppression?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777025701","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\/777025701","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=777025701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777025715,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025701\/revisions\/777025715"}],"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=777025701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777025701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777025701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}