{"id":777034892,"date":"2025-11-20T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777034892"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:53:58","slug":"indonesia-tells-cloudflare-to-block-illegal-online-gambling-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indonesia-tells-cloudflare-to-block-illegal-online-gambling-sites","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia asks Cloudflare to block illegal online gambling sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ministry has given Cloudflare 14 working days to comply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Indonesia.- The Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation has asked the internet service provider Cloudflare<\/strong> to help block illegal online gambling sites. In a press conference in Jakarta on Wednesday, November 19<\/strong>, the ministry\u2019s director general of digital space supervision, Alexander Sabar,<\/strong> said most of the online gambling sites operating in the jurisdiction use Cloudflare\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cited recent research which found that 76 per cent of 10,000 online gambling sites sampled<\/strong> relied on Cloudflare\u2019s infrastructure. Most were using the provider\u2019s services like IP masking and swift domain transfers to bypass content blocks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabar said: \u201cCloudflare should be working with us. It should not accept all requests for content delivery network services. If they harm Indonesia, Cloudflare should not accept them. This is the context of moderation; they should be filtering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabar said Cloudflare is among the 25 Electronic System Providers (PSEs)<\/strong> that have not yet registered with the ministry as required by the Ministerial Regulation No. 5\/2020<\/strong> on Private Electronic System Provider<\/strong>s. He said the ministry has given it 14 working days<\/strong> to comply with its obligations or face administrative sanctions, such as service termination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabar suggested that websites using Cloudflare’s services should start looking into alternative internet service providers so that they won\u2019t be affected in the event of access being blocked by the government. He said that Indonesia is open to global platforms, provided they show a commitment to compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Indonesian minister calls on religious leaders to give sermons against online gambling<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ministry has given Cloudflare 14 working days to comply.<\/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":"The Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation has mandated Cloudflare to block illegal online gambling sites and register as an Electronic System Provider within 14 days. This directive targets Cloudflare's infrastructure, reportedly utilized by 76% of sampled illegal gambling platforms for bypassing content blocks. Non-compliance risks administrative sanctions, including service termination, underscoring Indonesia's stringent regulatory stance on digital service providers.","focusai_entities":"Cloudflare, Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation, Alexander Sabar","focusai_location":"Indonesia, Jakarta","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.85), affiliate_publisher (0.7), tech_data (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cloudflare's Compliance Strategy?","query":"What specific technical and policy adjustments will Cloudflare implement to comply with Indonesia's Ministerial Regulation No. 5\/2020 and address the directive to block illegal online gambling sites, and what is the projected timeline for these changes?"},{"label":"Impact on Indonesian iGaming?","query":"How will Indonesia's aggressive enforcement against illegal online gambling, leveraging infrastructure providers, reshape the market landscape for both licensed and unlicensed iGaming operators within the jurisdiction?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16333],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777034892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034892","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=777034892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777034899,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034892\/revisions\/777034899"}],"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=777034892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777034892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777034892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}