Indonesian Online Gambling Controllers In Convex Regions, Developing Since The COVID-19 Pandemic

Kadivhubinter Polri Inspector General Krishna Murti/PHOTO IST

JAKARTA - The National Police said that online gambling is a transnational organized crime or a national organized crime. In fact, for Indonesia, the dealers who control it are in the Mekong Region Countries area.

"The perpetrators are the organizationalize crime groups that operate online gambling from the Mekong Region Countries. The Region countries are Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar," said Head of the International Relations Division (Kadivhubinter) of the National Police Inspector General Krishna Murti to reporters, Friday, June 21.

This online gambling practice is said to have started to operate during the COVID-19 Pandemic. At that time, the Mekong area, especially in special economic zones that were allowed to open gambling practices as entertainment, began to be empty of visitors.

The reason is that there is a policy of limiting mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, dealers innovate to make online gambling practices.

"Due to the limited of movement, travelers cannot gamble, they have developed online gambling since the COVID-19 pandemic, and since then online gambling has grown to all regions," he said.

"In its development, online settings are becoming illegal in several countries and they are trying to develop sites that can be accessed even though they have beenlimited by each country," Krishna continued.

Therefore, the National Police is collaborating with other state police to eradicate online gambling. At least, minimizing the existence of practices that support these gambling.

"Therefore, the National Police of the Republic of Indonesia, in this case Bareskrim and all ranks facilitated by the International Relations Division, have carried out operations with the police of other countries in order to tackle, including enforcing the law," Krishna said.