Coordinating Minister Muhaimin: Online Gambling Under The Guise Of Hope Even Though Fraud

Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment, Muhaimin Iskandar. BETWEEN/HO-Kemenko PM.

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Muhaimin Iskandar assessed that online gambling only gave false hope, because the lure of profit from online gambling was nothing more than the guise of mass fraud.

"Digitalization if it is not accompanied by adequate literacy will have a negative impact, such as the rise of online gambling. Things like this must be anticipated in the future," said Muhaimin Iskandar in a statement reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 11.

Muhaimin said online gambling was nothing more than mass fraud with the lure of winning wealth quickly.

"How good is the judol actor in the end, the dealer will also win. Online gambling is a mass fraud that consumes the economic capacity of the lowest purchasing power of the people," said Muhaimin Iskandar.

Gus Muhaimin requested that the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) work optimally in eradicating online gambling by closing online gambling sites.

This effort is important considering that most of the people involved in online gambling are the lower class.

The number of lower class people involved in online gambling is four to five million Indonesians.

"This number is certainly a sad fact regarding the large number of lower class people who are trapped in online gambling," he said.

The Ministry of Communication and Digital has eradicated 5.3 million content related to online gambling in digital spaces from 2017 to December 10, 2024.

Then as many as 72,543 content, accounts, and online gambling-related sites that have been prosecuted by Komdigi).