JAKARTA – Online gambling that affects the community is very disturbing. There have been many bad effects of online gambling reported. Starting from the case of domestic violence, divorce, expression to suicide cases. Finally, the case of a wife burning her husband to death due to gambling in Mojokerto, East Java.
The rise of online gambling that has infected many levels of society has encouraged President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to issue Presidential Decree No. 21 of 2024 concerning the Online Gambling Eradication Task Force.
The formation of this Task Force is expected to end the development of the community’s disease. Moreover, it is known that the disease has infected children. The dealers use a strategy to reduce the deposit value as little as possible in order to reach the children and the underprivileged. With a bet capital of 5,000 to 10,000 people can gamble online. It is not even necessary to transfer them to use the number of cellphone credits they can play slot gambling.
The expansion of the easy and cheap online gambling market has resulted in the value of the circulation of money generated by online gambling dealers increasing sharply from year to year. According to the Coordinator of the PPATK Public Relations Substance Group, M. Natsir Kongah, the amount of money circulating is indicated that online gambling has reached Rp600 trillion. “The data obtained by PPATK from monitoring and analysis from 2017 to 2024,” he told Voi, June 23.
PPATK also reported that during 2022 to 2023, the number of people participating in online gambling games reached 3,295,310 people. PPATK has temporarily suspended transactions of 3,236 accounts, with total balances terminated by transactions reaching Rp138 billion. The circulation of funds, which includes bet money, payment of wins, inter-city transfers, and transactions suspected of being money laundering by the dealer network currently reach Rp600 trillion.
According to the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs as well as the Head of the Online Judi Task Force, Hadi Tjahjanto, when announcing members of the Eradication Task Force said the Task Force would carry out three operations. First, follow up on PPATK’s findings regarding blocking a number of accounts indicated by online gambling.
Second, related to the sale and purchase of accounts. According to Hadi, the mode is known By deploying people into villages to persuade people, under the pretext that an account will be created instantly and borrow a resident’s ID card in certain rewards. Then the collectors handed over the account to the dealers, the dealers used accounts to collect gambling funds so that they would not be tracked down because of the identity and ownership of the account in the name of the person.
The target of the third Task Force Operation is online gambling tracing with the mode of purchasing top up online gambling tokens through Voi Tracing shops and supermarkets, on the internet there are also many sales of account numbers and ATM cards, to savings books of various banks. Sales were found in Facebook groups. Sold openly, even sellers include numbers that can be contacted. They set prices ranging from Rp. 100,000 to Rp. 450 thousand per number.
The formation of this Judicial Task Force is also driven by data increasing access to gambling sites. Sites and gambling publications have reached children under the age of 10, even reaching 80,000 children.
Even though gambling access is dominated by middle to lower bookings, from IDR 10 thousand to IDR 100,000, reaching 2.37 million or 80 percent. Meanwhile, the middle to upper class cluster with a bet value of IDR 100,000 to IDR 40 billion reached 20 percent.
Responding to the formation of the Judicial Task Force, Cyber Security Expert Pratama Persada, assessed that the steps that the government had taken were because so far the steps to eradicate gambling have been carried out alone with their respective duties and functions. With the formation of a task force, there are those who orchestrate activities.
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TPPU expert from Tri Sakti, Yenti Garnasih, said online gambling has actually been detected. Since the Ferdy Sambo case has been detected, gambling, money flow has been detected and gambling, and has also been increased and has been detected.
According to Yenti, there is already a law that can ensnare gambling actors. Money laundering offenses should also be able to run, dealers can snare themselves through their money traffic. Through money laundering offenses, the perpetrators can be confiscated or impoverished.
OJK can also block accounts. Moreover, since last October, Indonesia has officially entered the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as an organization for global financial standards in preventing and fighting money laundering, financing terrorism, and financing for the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as well as other things that threaten global financial integrity.
Pratama added that the Chairman of CISSReC, handling online gambling cyber, is actually not too difficult. The blocking by Kominfo is actually not appropriate. Because what is blocked is only the landing page from online gambling sites, where the site is only used for information related to promotions and methods as well as account information to make deposits and withdrawals. On the site, although it is also used to carry out online gambling activities. However, the platform server of the online gambling site is actually not on the landing page. So that the Kominfo did track the IP Address server of the online gambling platform and blocked it.
From the results of the CISSReC search, on one server the online gambling game is connected up to 500 different landing pages, This proves that although landing pages and small operators or dealers and names of different online gambling sites use the same gaming server. This server should be blocked by the government, even if possible, cooperate with Interpol to confiscate the physical serve.
With the blocking of IP Address from the server or even physical confiscation, online gambling is being stopped and is expected to reduce the comfort of playing. So that it can reduce the interest of online gamblers to play again, because the game will often be cut off if the serverip is blocked or the server is physically confiscated by Interpol,” he told Voi, Monday, June 24.
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