JAKARTA - Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) Budi Arie Setiadi stated that the Online Gambling Eradication Task Force after more than a month of duty succeeded in suppressing up to 50 percent of access to online gambling facilities in Indonesia.
"According to data from the PPATK (Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center) in 2024, the Task Force's intervention has succeeded in reducing 50 percent of public access to online gambling and reducing a nominal amount of Rp34.49 trillion in public deposits on online gambling sites," Budi said at a Socialization event. Prevention of Gambling in the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) in Jakarta, Thursday, July 25, confiscated by Antara.
Budi explained, as part of the Task Force, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, including moderating content, terminating access to content containing online gambling, and socializing online gambling prevention through digital literacy improvement activities.
Kominfo from 17 July 2023 to 23 July 2024 has submitted a blocking of 573 e-wallet accounts related to online gambling to Bank Indonesia.
During that period, the government had cut off access to 23,616 gambling-related content from the website page of government institutions and handled 22,205 gambling-related content from insertion access on the institution's website page.
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In addition, the government has submitted a total handling submission of 20,595 keywords related to online gambling to Google from November 2023 to July 2024.
During the period 15 December 2023 to 23 July 2024, the Ministry of Communication and Information also found 3,961 keywords related to online gambling on the Meta platform.
Kominfo has submitted a blocking of 6,199 online gambling-related bank accounts to the Financial Services Authority (OJK) from September 2023 to July 23, 2024.
"If these interventions can be strengthened, then the decrease in access to the entry of online gambling sites can reach 80 percent, and reduce the number of public deposits on online gambling sites to Rp45.79 trillion," said Budi.
The Ministry of Communication and Information will continue to carry out efforts to prevent and eradicate online gambling practices.
"Hopefully, don't slack off, with this socialization, it should be more fast (to eradicate online gambling)," said Budi Arie.
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