Muhaimin: Online Gambling For Social Disasters

Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment (Menko PM) Muhaimin Iskandar/ANTARA HO

Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment (Menko PM) Muhaimin Iskandar stated that online gambling is a social disaster that erodes and threatens the survival of the community.

"Judionline is a social disaster, a disease that damages the welfare cycle of the community," he said after visiting a judicial addiction rehabilitation patient at the Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital (RSCM) Jakarta, reported by ANTARA, Friday, November 15.

Gus Imin, Muhaimin Iskandar's nickname, emphasized mitigation, rehabilitation, and reintegration of victims as the key to being carried out in efforts to empower the community.

Mitigation, he said, means efforts to strengthen the victim's economy, rehabilitation is carried out through psychosocial consultation services, and reintegration means efforts to strengthen social values.

It is known, as many as more than 100 people are being treated at RSCM due to gambling addiction throughout 2024.

"These patients have committed criminal acts due to gambling addiction. They cannot control themselves, so medical intervention is needed through rehabilitation," he said.

The government, said Coordinating Minister Muhaimin, has a target that the extreme poverty rate reaches zero percent. One of the efforts to realize this is to suppress community participation in the online gambling.

Thus, he assessed that various community assistance or income could be used in more productive matters.

Muhaimin emphasized that his party is committed to suppressing and resolving gambling problems through coordination with various relevant ministries and institutions.

"All parties must be involved. I through the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture will try to coordinate all ministries and institutions to ensure mitigation and rehabilitation and reintegration of victims," said Muhaimin Iskandar.