Jakarta – A total of 846,047 online gambling site content has been cut off by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo). This firm step was taken as a priority effort to eradicate online gambling activities.
“In the last week of July 13-19 2023, the Ministry of Communication and Information has also cut off access to 11,333 online gambling site content,” said Minister of Communication and Information Budi Arie Setiadi at the Kominfo Office, Jakarta, Thursday, (20/7).
He continued, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics also received complaints of misuse of bank account accounts for the purpose of violating the law, including gambling content through the Cekrekening.id platform.
Meanwhile, from January to July 17 2023, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics received 1,859 complaints about the use of banking accounts for online gambling activities. This amount is part of the complaints that the Ministry of Communication and Informatics received in 2023, namely 1,914 complaints
Minister Budi revealed that the blocking of access to online gambling content was carried out based on the findings of the Kominfo cyber patrol team as well as complaints from the general public as well as ministries and state agencies.
The findings are followed up by the verification stage and requests for recommendations from relevant ministries and agencies to ensure that the content truly violates laws and regulations.
“Especially for gambling content, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics can terminate directly if the content is found on a site, the Ministry of Communication and Information will terminate access to sites that contain gambling content,” he said.
“As for content contained on social media platforms, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics will ask the platform manager to remove the gambling content. If the platform refuses to remove it, sanctions will be imposed according to the applicable laws and regulations,” continued the minister who is also a former journalist with the zodiac sign Taurus. This.
On this occasion, Minister Budi asked the public to participate in counteracting online gambling which has been increasingly prevalent lately.
“We ask and urge the public to consistently support our joint work by reporting online gambling content found and making better and more productive use of the internet,” he concluded. Bembo
