Domino Qiu Qiu Claimed Not To Be An Online Gambling Site, Kominfo: Please Download

Kominfo claims Domino Qiu Qiu is just an ordinary domino game (photo: Playstore)

JAKARTA - The Kominfo Blocking hashtag had been perched for a long time as a trending topic on Twitter until last night, Sunday, July 31.

Since the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology took steps to block several sites such as Steam, Dota 2, Epic Games Store, PayPal, and Origin, many netizens were disappointed with the decision.

While Kominfo has temporarily opened the PayPal platform until August 5, the Director General of Information Applications at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics, Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan, hopes that PayPal users can take advantage of the time available to migrate their funds to other financial services.

However, it seems that this decision has not satisfied netizens. The reason is, netizens found, Domino Qiu Qiu, a site claimed to be an "online gambling site" registered on the Ministry of Communication and Information's Foreign PSE page.

Then, responding to this, Samuel in his press conference on Sunday, July 31, said that it was not an online gambling site, but only a domino game.

"I got a report that there is such a thing as Domino Qiu Qiu, it's a game, so it's not gambling. Please download it, it can be played without using money," he said.

Samuel firmly said that Domino Qiu Qiu was an ordinary online domino card game.

"But like yesterday, there were a lot of questions, we've checked that it's a game, a domino card game, an online game," he concluded.

On the same occasion, Samuel also said that three game platforms such as Steam, Dota, and CSGO had successfully contacted Kominfo and were in the process of preparing the requirements for PSE registration.