{"id":777034034,"date":"2025-11-03T06:54:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777034034"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:32:36","slug":"prabowo-calls-for-united-effort-to-tackle-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/prabowo-calls-for-united-effort-to-tackle-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian presidents calls for global effort against unlicensed online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Prabowo said that Indonesia loses around US$8bn each year to outflows of funds caused by online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Indonesia.- President Prabowo Subianto used his address at the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting (AELM) in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday (November 1) to call for a global effort to tackle transnational crimes, including illegal online gambling as well as smuggling, corruption, and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prabowo said that Indonesia loses around US$8bn<\/strong> each year to outflows of funds caused by online gambling. He also stressed the importance of technological progress for national growth and said his administration is dedicated to strengthening digital education and technological literacy, as well as adopting artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prabowo said: \u201cWe are entering a new era marked by rapid advances in high technology, particularly AI. We also understand that we must confront the challenges posed by demographic change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-day summit held from October 31 to November 1<\/strong> was chaired and hosted by South Korean president Lee Jae Myung<\/strong>. In a recent statement, Lee vowed to combat transnational crimes<\/a> through strengthened global partnerships and a multi-agency effort.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Jeju police make 21 arrests in operation against illegal gambling network<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prabowo said that Indonesia loses around US$8bn each year to outflows of funds caused by online gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2395,"featured_media":777028668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, addressing the APEC Economic Leaders\u2019 Meeting in South Korea, called for a global initiative to combat transnational crimes, specifically highlighting illegal online gambling. He stated that Indonesia incurs an estimated US$8 billion annual loss from fund outflows attributed to illicit online gambling operations, underscoring the economic impact of unregulated gaming activities.","focusai_entities":"Prabowo Subianto, Lee Jae Myung, APEC","focusai_location":"Indonesia, South Korea, Gyeongju","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"APEC Gambling Impact","query":"What specific policy mechanisms or international cooperation frameworks are being proposed by APEC member states to address the US$8 billion annual fund outflow attributed to illegal online gambling in Indonesia?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Outlook","query":"How might the Indonesian President's call for global action against illegal online gambling influence the regulatory compliance burden and enforcement priorities for licensed iGaming operators and payment processors in regulated markets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154],"tags":[4138,24973,24957],"class_list":["post-777034034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","tag-online-gambling","tag-technological-progress","tag-transnational-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034034","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\/2395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777034034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777034040,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034034\/revisions\/777034040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777028668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777034034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777034034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777034034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}