Member Of Commission III Of The DPR Regarding The Arrest Of 5 Judol Administrators In DIY: Police Don't Arrest The Dealer?

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JAKARTA - Member of Commission III of the House of Representatives, Sarifuddin Sudding, highlighted the arrests of five perpetrators suspected of outsmarting the system and harming online gambling dealers (judol) by the Yogyakarta Special Region Police (Polda DIY).

According to Sudding, this case should be an entry point to hunt down the mastermind, aka the dealer behind the rampant online gambling.

He said the police had to use the five arrested people to investigate judol accounts, including opening them to the public who reported them.

"There are anomalies that cannot be ignored. The police should have brushed it off, the dealer, and this case is the entrance. If it's the dealer who reported it, why don't the police arrest it. And even if it's not, why don't the police arrest the dealer?" said Sudding to reporters, Friday, August 8th.

Sudding was surprised why the police quickly handled cases that were detrimental to the judol dealer, but seemed slow to reveal the city itself.

"The police moved quickly to arrest residents who were said to be detrimental to online gambling sites, but the existence of dealers who were clearly the main perpetrators was untouched. This is like letting the root of crime continue to grow, and only cutting the branches. It's ironic," said the PAN politician.

He also reminded law enforcement officials not to be discriminatory, especially in handling cases with broad social and economic impacts such as online gambling.

Moreover, digital gambling has become a social epidemic targeting the lower class, damaging family life, and ensnaring the younger generation in debt bondage and addiction.

"Don't let the authorities look more alert when the perpetrators who were arrested 'harm the dealer', but slowly when faced are dealers who harm the community," said Sudding.

"If it is true that the apparatus acts on public reports, what should be being hunted should be the dealer who created the gambling ecosystem itself," he added.

In this case, Sudding urged the Yogyakarta Regional Police to be professional, transparent, and accountable, as well as to reveal to the public who the big actors behind the online gambling site operation were.

"It's time for law enforcement officials to stop chasing small perpetrators and start dismantling illegal business structures involving large dealers, payment networks, and potential omission by unscrupulous officers," said Sudding.

This member of the House of Representatives Law Commission also encourages a thorough audit of online gambling sites that are active in the Yogyakarta region and its surroundings. Including, said Sudding, tracing the flow of funds, using digital wallets, and the potential for systematic cooperation that allows this illegal business to continue.

"If you are serious about eradicating online gambling, it is not enough to just arrest technical actors on the surface. It takes political courage and legal integrity to touch the main controllers of online gambling," he concluded.