Ferry Irwandi Content: Online Gambling Is The Same As Smoking

Content creator Ferry Irwandi (center) (photo: Dinda Buana/VOI)

JAKARTA - The presence of online gambling has had many negative impacts on its players. Not only financial problems, the Ministry of Communication and Digital also mentions that gambling can affect a person's mentality, such as triggering chronic stress, anxiety, and depression.

Interestingly, a content creator whose focus is one of the focuses is education related to online gambling, Ferry Irwandi, said that online gambling has brought addiction to its players.

"Now that we are talking about the behavior of the people who are already attached, the online gambling players, they don't don't know they are being fooled, but, hormonally, people who are addicted, addicted," Ferry said in a public discussion Forwat X DANA "Breaking the Online Gambling Chain for a Healthy Digital Ecosystem" held on Friday, November 29.

According to him, online gambling brings effects such as cigarettes, which make smokers addicted. Because now, online gambling players no longer care about the sensation of winning or losing, but because they are addicted to playing online gambling.

"It's just as rich as all smokers, they know it's not healthy, but yes we need to smoke. And like playing gambling, it's no longer a sensation of winning, or losing again what they're looking for, when the rolade is played, sorry, it's like just gambling you can ejaculate many times," he explained further.

This surprising fact was also proven by a history of online gambling transactions by one of the players shared by the Deputy for Analysis and Audit of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) Danang Tri Hartono at the same time.

In a slide presentation, Danang showed how one online gambling player continued to deposit even though he had lost many times.

And in the transfer statement, it is not uncommon for these people to curse the dealers with harsh words, or ask for mercy from the dealers to win. Here are some evidence of transaction statements of someone who makes continuous deposits to play online gambling/

"The dealer's business is dead, you"

Depo lagi depo lagi rungkad

"Give me a win, I'm orphaned"

"If I lose again I won't play"

'Judi heresy'

However, even though they already know they were deceived, this fact illustrates how the online gambling addiction makes players willing to spend money, even in a clear loss condition.

Therefore, according to Ferry, dealing with online gambling is like trying to unravel the tangled thread. "The airport is abroad, it wants to burn the server, the server is already abroad," he said.

Thus, Ferry emphasized the importance of cooperation, not only the government and relevant stakeholders, to deal with this problem. "We are both looking for ways to deal with this problem," he said. Although difficult, he is optimistic that education and the right approach can help people get out of the snares of addiction.