Muhaimin: Rehabilitation Of Online Judicial Addicts Will Be Assisted By The Government

Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment (Menko PM) Muhaimin Iskandar/ANTARA/Sean Filo Muhamad)

Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment (Menko PM) Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin) said that the rehabilitation of gambling addicts will receive assistance from the government.

Some of them include assistance for rehabilitation treatment at hospitals through the Health Social Security Administration (BPJS) scheme, as well as social assistance from the Ministry of Social Affairs.

"Certainly, because this is part of a social victim. And of course, apart from BPJS, then we also have various assistance from the Ministry of Social Affairs," he said after visiting an online gambling addiction rehabilitation patient at the Cipto Mangunkusumo National Central General Hospital (RSCM) Jakarta, reported by ANTARA, Friday, November 15.

Not only assistance, Cak Imin also emphasized that his party would provide various training capital to victims so that they could earn a living, after the victim recovered.

"Certainly (victim training), the root of the problem is two. The first is of course poverty and unemployment, the second root is psychological, yes addiction and various non-economic aspects," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Department of Psychiatry of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (FKUI)-RSCM, Dr. Kristiana Site Kurniasanti, confirmed that patients with rehabilitation of online gambling addiction received treatment borne by BPJS Kesehatan.

"Coverted by BPJS, (both) hospitalization and outpatient," he said.

Throughout 2024, Siste revealed that there were 46 inpatients undergoing rehabilitation for online gambling addiction. This figure has increased by three times compared to 2023.

As for outpatients, he said, there were 126 patients throughout 2024, a double increase compared to 2023.

"Most of those who come here are from Jabodetabek, but there are also references from outside the city, for example from Kalimantan, Sumatra, then from Central Java there are also those who come here, there are also from Sulawesi," said Kristiana Siste Kurniasanti.