Promote 5 Online Gambling Websites, Students In Medan Arrested By Police

Illustration of online gambling (ANTARA)

A student in the city of Medan, Sumatra was arrested by the police for promoting online gambling on her personal social media accounts. After undergoing a series of examinations, the student was named a suspect.

This student is known to have the initials HM, she was arrested by a team from the Cyber Directorate of the North Sumatra Regional Police in the Padang Bulan Street area, Medan Selayang District, Medan City, North Sumatra on Sunday.

The police found the perpetrator's activities on his personal Instagram social media accounts to promote or endorse online gambling sites. From the results of the investigation, there were five online gambling sites promoted by the student, namely Waka Slot, Pixue Bet, Dragon Slot, Byon88, and Kyoto98.

Head of Public Relations of the North Sumatra Regional Police (Polda Sumut) Kombes Hadi Wahyudi said the arrest of a student promoting online gambling began with a team from the Cyber Directorate of the North Sumatra Police conducting cyber patrols related to gambling websites and finding the suspect's Instagram account promoting online gambling.

Finding this, the officers immediately carried out an investigation and continued by arresting the suspect HM.

"So the person concerned uploads his personal Instagram Stories every day for five accounts or five websites related to gambling," said Hadi, Monday, November 4.

Hadi revealed, from the results of the investigation and examination, the suspect received a wage or a reward of Rp. 500,000 to Rp. 1,000,000 per month for one type of website or online gambling website. If the total suspect gets a salary of Rp. 3 million to Rp. 5 million.

"This perpetrator received an order to upload a gambling website from one of the Instagram accounts and also several other accounts through chat communication between the ordering party and the perpetrators that we are safe," he said.

Suspect HM himself has promoted the online gambling website on his personal Instagram account in this month. He did this alone.

Now the North Sumatra Police's Cyber Directorate is hunting for the person who ordered and who paid the suspect to promote the online gambling website.

To account for his actions, HM is now languishing in the detention cell of the North Sumatra Police Headquarters. HM is subject to Article 27 paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 45 paragraph (3) of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2024 concerning the second amendment to the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions Sub-Article 303 paragraph (1) letter a of the Criminal Code concerning the crime of each person intentionally and without the right to distribute and or transmit and or make accessible electronic information and or electronic documents that have gambling charges with a penalty of more than five years in prison.