{"id":777026018,"date":"2025-05-05T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777026018"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:19:19","slug":"indonesia-says-1-3m-pieces-of-online-gaming-content-removed-since-october-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-says-1-3m-pieces-of-online-gaming-content-removed-since-october-2024","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia says 1.3m pieces of online gaming content removed since October 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The content was blocked between October 20, 2024 and April 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia.-\u00a0<strong>Meutya Hafid<\/strong>, minister of communication and digital affairs (Komdigi), has announced that his ministry took action against<strong>\u00a01,192,000 website links <\/strong>and IP addresses and 127,000 pieces of gambling contents on social media between October 20, 2024, and April 23, 2025,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meutya said the government had strengthened digital surveillance and law enforcement through collaboration with the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). The Komdigi also launched the <strong>Content Moderation Compliance System (SAMAN)<\/strong>, which requires digital platforms to take action on high-risk content within four hours and other harmful content within 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gambling in Indonesia is illegal&nbsp;for both citizens and foreigners. Several ministers are collaborating with the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-tightens-controls-to-curb-online-gambling-transactions\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stop the use of payment and banking systems<\/a>&nbsp;for online gambling. The government also implemented a monitoring system using artificial intelligence to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-to-use-ai-to-fight-illegal-online-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detect websites associated with online gambling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, a district court in Medan, North Sumatra, sentenced a woman named\u00a0<strong>Indah Siska Sar<\/strong>\u00a0to 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<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>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The content was blocked between October 20, 2024 and April 23.<\/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 (Komdigi) has significantly escalated its crackdown on online gambling, blocking over 1.19 million links and 127,000 social media content pieces between October 2024 and April 2025. This intensified enforcement includes inter-agency collaboration, AI-driven monitoring, and the implementation of the Content Moderation Compliance System (SAMAN), alongside legal prosecution for promoters.","focusai_entities":"Meutya Hafid, Komdigi, Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), Content Moderation Compliance System (SAMAN), Financial Services Authority (OJK), Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), Indah Siska Sar","focusai_location":"Indonesia, Medan, North Sumatra, Tanjung Pura, Langkat Regency, Thailand, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.97), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.92), tech_data (0.88), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.93), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Payment Processors?","query":"What specific measures are the OJK and PPATK implementing to block payment channels for illegal online gambling, and what is the projected impact on payment service providers operating in Indonesia?"},{"label":"SAMAN System Efficacy?","query":"How will the Content Moderation Compliance System (SAMAN) integrate with existing digital platform governance frameworks, and what are the key performance indicators for its efficacy in real-time content removal?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16333],"tags":[20326,225,4138],"class_list":["post-777026018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling","tag-legislation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777026018","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=777026018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777026018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777026042,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777026018\/revisions\/777026042"}],"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=777026018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777026018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777026018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}