‘Online gambling is a scam’


SOME 2.7 million in the country gamble online regularly, recording roughly 327 trillion rupiah (RM95.8bil) ) in fund circulation in 2023, with a worried government trying to eradicate the vice by calling it a scam.

In its fight against the promoters of such sites, the Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kominfo) took down more than 800,000 gambling websites in the second half of 2023 – the same number as the gambling websites that were taken down in the previous five years.

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