JAKARTA - There are 2.76 million Indonesians who are addicted to playing online gambling. What makes it sad is that almost all of these players are poor people.
This data has been issued by the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK). The exact figure issued by PPATK, there are 2.19 million poor people willing to spend money playing online gambling. This means that the amount is equivalent to 79 percent of the total online gambling players in Indonesia.
They also carry out betting activities with a small nominal below Rp. 100,000. The perpetrators of low-income groups are students, students, laborers, farmers, housewives, to private employees.
The total circulation of funds related to online gambling in the 2017-2022 period reached IDR 190.26 trillion. And it continues to increase every year. Even if the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) said, the total online gambling transactions in Indonesia are estimated to reach IDR 200 trillion.
Meanwhile, public losses per year are estimated at IDR 27 trillion. Minister of Communication and Information Budi Arie Setiadi said, from August 1 to September 23, 2023, his party had terminated access or taken down 126,408 content on social media sites and platforms.
Kominfo also found 1,931 accounts related to gambling, with 201 accounts blocked. Watch the video below.
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