Kominfo Blocks Livescore Sites In Today's Memory, November 13, 2020

Homepage site Livescore.com. (Livescore)

JAKARTA Memories today, five years ago, November 13, 2020, the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) officially blocked the website of the latest sports match provider, Livescore. The blocking was carried out because Livescore provided many online tickets (judol).

Previously, the COVID-19 pandemic brought new habits. The whole community started to do a lot of activities from home from work and learning. However, the pandemic actually helped fertilize the practice of playing judol from home.

The COVID-19 pandemic has indeed forced many people to change. The Indonesian government has invited its people to adopt a new habit of living. People are asked to avoid crowds. Those who work in the non-essential field do not have to enter the office.

They were asked to work from home. Schools were closed. Some of them started doing online teaching and learning activities. In fact, threats don't just come from the virus. Living away from the crowd turned out to bring many people closer to judol.

They freely explore various judol sites. The site is easily accessible using only a smart phone or laptop. However, it gives rise to old diseases. Those who win joys. Those who lose are certainly never ready for defeat.

They can risk everything on the judol table. The defeat made life in the midst of the outbreak of the virus from Wuhan even more severe. Kominfo also saw the problem seriously. The owner of power wants to immediately break the judol chain in the archipelago.

This desire is so that people do many activities useful and avoid judol. However, Kominfo cannot effectively eradicate judol. Take for example in Aceh. All Acehnese clerics stepped in to issue a fatwa that is haram judol.

Online gambling is like a domino game that is increasingly spreading among all Acehnese people. But strangely, the Aceh Government seems not to feel responsible for the condition of the people it leads. The Aceh government should not ignore the Aceh MPU fatwa which has forbidden judol."

"So this is a matter that has appeared. Given the nature of online games such as judicipdomino which is addictive, it is very likely that social issues will continue to grow up in the future. Moreover, the ulama have also emphasized that the game of buying and selling domino chips is a gambling carried out online," said Aceh cleric, Teuku Zulkhairi as quoted on the website. , November 4, 2020.

Kominfo also does not want to lose confidence in the community. They tried to block many judol sites. However, instead of blocking all judol sites. Kominfo also blocked other sites such as Livescore on November 13, 2020.

Livescore.com itself is known as the site that provides the latest sports match results. Usually Indonesian football lovers often use the site to find out the match score when they don't have time to see their favorite team play.

The blocking was then questioned by many. Livescore is not a judol site and there is no reason for Kominfo to block it. The criticism was then answered by Kominfo. The owner of the power considers Livescore to have spread many prosecutors.

Kominfo also promised to immediately revoke the block. They only block judol sites promoted by the Livescore site.

"It was blocked November 13, 2020 because the AIS Patrol Cyber engine was detected providing a link to access gambling sites. So if Kominfo includes a domainsite blocked into the blacklist database system, telecommunications operators will automatically adjust the database," said the Minister of Communication and Information, Johnny G. Plate as quoted on the page tempomo.co a few days later, November 16, 2020.