Topic: Indonesia gov blocked poular search engine over gambling results. (Read 1424 times)

Indonesia is a Muslim majority country and has a large Muslim population which is why they do not gamble according to their religious rules. Since it is illegal to play due to their religion, they do not place bets on gambling. However, even after the illegal declaration by the government, many gamble secretly and those who run the gambling sites are powerful people. When the police find there and try to take action, they get away with bribes. But directly you will not find gambling court in Indonesia. As such you will not get a license to operate a casino.

The problem today is that so many gambling sites and applications are being created almost every day. They mostly use the JILI provider slot games and they keep on creating new sites like it's different from the first one. I even bumped to one of them which came from Indonesia itself, I don't know if it's real or they are just trying to confuse the players and the authorities on where the true origin of the platform is.

Anyway, it's illegal in Indonesia but we have seen how new internet applications can bypass this and I don't think that their government has the best technology to stop it all. It's not like they have control over the whole internet. What they can only do is minimize the damage.

Just encountered this news - "DuckDuckGo blocked in Indonesia over ..., gambling search results." which has dropped a bomb on me. I have never been in this country and always thought it is loyal to gambling. But it seems to be not. How does the matter lie at present? I wonder this because of my plans to visit Indonesia for a couple of weeks and when visiting countries for the first time  I commonly show myself  round the local casinos.

Indo people are known from their religious beliefs and considering their beliefs, gambling is rampant and so is porn and all the others. I dont think any of them is bad as long moderation is done, but I guess governments have to do something instead of doing nothing to show that they are serious about controlling the bad habits when clearly religious indoctrination is not enough.

However this does sound like a lot of people are going to learn how to bypass government banning tactics, which are futile at best.

The government has previously blocked numerous pornography sites, Reddit, and Vimeo, and imposed temporary or partial restrictions on Tumblr, Telegram, TikTok, Netflix, and Badoo.
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Some disclosures have been made... the casino servers are located outside and the casinos are instead operated in their own country.... But this is not clear because there has been no definitive disclosure.

Now anyone who promotes gambling on their social media will be arrested including some artists and influencers they have been arrested.

The gambling industry in Indonesia is quite large, and most of these gambling providers are directly backed by police/army generals, so their subordinates cannot take firm action against these gambling providers because they have paid security money to their generals. So it is no wonder that the gambling industry is thriving in Indonesia behind the scenes, because they are directly backed by high-ranking officials here and no one has been able to take action against them until now.

Lol, and so it seems that gambling as well is everywhere in Indonesia? And most likely this is the reasons why the government at least wanted to block the popular engine because many Indonesians are really into gambling. But wait, if the policeman can play slots in his cellphone, then most likely there could be some local 3rd party that facilitate gambling itself?

I do not think that they could jail them though, perhaps what they wanted is to stop the access of any gambling sites that the Indonesian are using. But as per gamblers experience, whether the government try to block it or not, they are very resourceful and can find a way to still continue to gamble.

You are correct that those where most of the people of a c country are Muslims they can't allow their pupils to engage in gambling. And that's why the Indonesian Govt blocked gambling I think as there are almost all the people are Muslim. However, they recited something about tax.

Indonesia is a Muslim majority country and has a large Muslim population which is why they do not gamble according to their religious rules. Since it is illegal to play due to their religion, they do not place bets on gambling. However, even after the illegal declaration by the government, many gamble secretly and those who run the gambling sites are powerful people. When the police find there and try to take action, they get away with bribes. But directly you will not find gambling court in Indonesia. As such you will not get a license to operate a casino.

Yes, that's right, any country if the majority is Muslim then gambling is prohibited because it is against the law based on its religion. It is only natural that Indonesia blocks gambling sites because the majority of Indonesian people have become heavy addicts, also with the many cases that have occurred with them experiencing misery even to the point of suicide cases caused by stress because of gambling, it proves that gambling is prohibited in Indonesia.
So if OP wants to go to Indonesia, please go ahead, but there will be no gambling that can be done, maybe you can do it online because even though it is prohibited, there are still many people who do it online, for offline gambling there may be but the place is hidden, and no one knows when the unlucky time will arrive so it could be that when we visit offline gambling there are problems such as arrests or others, so it is better to consider it again first.

There's ton of ways and even just simply making use of a free VPN on which you could be able to make use on OPERA browser on which you could directly be able to visit sites that it is really that prohibited into your country. This is why there's no way that it would really be that completely be isolated into this case and there would really be those people who would really be that trying out to access things despite of such ban
or block. The cons on  here is that whenever you do get caught then for sure you would be suffering some penalties or even worst. The main question is, on how they would really be able to detect it out?
This is why there's no way that we would really be that getting rid into those people who would be tending out to access, on which this isnt really that something that isnt that limited on gambling alone but also in other things as well.

There's no way for it to be completely blocked. Somehow on what the government had done on here does really shows that they do really care about into their citizens specially into gambling addiction.
Usually government wont really be minding about their citizen but rather they would really be preferring on having that getting huge revenue and taxation towards these business
rather than on minding about their citizens condition on which its really that something rare for government to do so.

I do not think that they could jail them though, perhaps what they wanted is to stop the access of any gambling sites that the Indonesian are using. But as per gamblers experience, whether the government try to block it or not, they are very resourceful and can find a way to still continue to gamble.

I once saw a policeman here playing slots from their cellphone, and he seemed to enjoy it, very funny right? that's the picture of gambling law in Indonesia, even though there is a law that states that anyone who gambles will be punished, but in reality there are still people who gamble and are not punished, because the rules are not too strict. And more if the police really enforce the rules strictly, maybe the prison will be full of gamblers and that will be a new problem for the country.

I once saw a policeman here playing slots from their cellphone, and he seemed to enjoy it, very funny right? that's the picture of gambling law in Indonesia, even though there is a law that states that anyone who gambles will be punished, but in reality there are still people who gamble and are not punished, because the rules are not too strict. And more if the police really enforce the rules strictly, maybe the prison will be full of gamblers and that will be a new problem for the country.

I once saw a policeman here playing slots from their cellphone, and he seemed to enjoy it, very funny right? that's the picture of gambling law in Indonesia, even though there is a law that states that anyone who gambles will be punished, but in reality there are still people who gamble and are not punished, because the rules are not too strict. And more if the police really enforce the rules strictly, maybe the prison will be full of gamblers and that will be a new problem for the country.

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So how can you say that it's one of the worst thing that they do when it will stop or at least minimized gambling in their country? Besides, it's illegal and so they have every right to condemn gambling. Not sure though what will happen to those who are going to be caught playing or if there are individuals already who have been jailed in Indonesia because of illegal gambling.

Lol, it could be that the government of Indonesia doesn't want gambling to their over the lives of the population, again as I have said before there are countries in their neighboring region has been gripping with gambling and most likely they don't want to be the next nation.

So how can you say that it's one of the worst thing that they do when it will stop or at least minimized gambling in their country? Besides, it's illegal and so they have every right to condemn gambling. Not sure though what will happen to those who are going to be caught playing or if there are individuals already who have been jailed in Indonesia because of illegal gambling.