Topic: Indonesia gov blocked poular search engine over gambling results. (Read 614 times)

Haha , I laugh at the efforts some governments put in to stop people from living their lives. In this present age, the only people the government can successfully stop from gambling are those who are not really passionate about gambling. Real gamblers would always find a way to gamble and it will be very difficult for the government to catch them.

When the government begins to dictate how people should live their lives all because of some religious practice in that country, I see it that the government is trespassing. People should be allowed to do what they enjoy doing, as long as it doesn't cause harm to the next person. Strict gambling regulations like this are not really neccessary.

If the government is wise, they would be making money from gambling instead of investing so much in preventing people from gambling.

We can't do anything about that because that's Indonesia's regulation, and maybe they did that because there might be violators that don't according to their regulation rules. And besides that, as far as I know, the majority of people there are Muslim believers.

Most people know that as long as they are Muslim, they are not allowed to gamble. If they are residents there, they must follow the rules that exist in Indonesia.

If you want to go for land based casino, I think the closest to Indonesia, you can visit Singapore. there gambling is legal and there are some popular casinos. don't expect you to find local casinos in Indonesia, their government strictly prohibits gambling. there is news in the media that ever discussed that they are facing so many online gambling site attacks. that's what makes the government make the rule.
they might not have a physical casino, therefore online casinos might be the only place for Indonesian gamblers.

Extreme measures such as blocking websites with the intention of punishing a select few but which end up harming the entire population are not only the result of dictatorial countries.
For example, did you see that in Brazil X (Twitter) was blocked because Elon Musk refused to comply with a court order? As a result, the entire population was prevented from accessing X for an indefinite period of time.

Unfortunately, Indonesia is a country that strongly represses gambling, so if your purpose of traveling is to seek this type of entertainment, you better change your mind.
However, if your purpose of traveling is for work or leisure (in other ways), I believe there is not much to worry about.
It is always good to know what the prohibitions are in a country before traveling to it, to avoid problems.

Basically, Indonesia is a country that prohibits gambling but in reality, there are more Indonesians who are gamblers because from a few months ago there were also indications that there were also slot bets during the meeting. Of course, this proves that regulations are not always a priority to be obeyed because after all, the reality is that gambling in Indonesia is also still very easy to find or play, whether it's online gambling or physical gambling. So, about the news or information I think it is true, but even if you visit Indonesia it seems like I'm sure you will still easily do and or access gambling. Who knows.

You should cancel your intention to visit Indonesia, you will not find an official casino, playing illegally will certainly put you in danger, unless you just want recreation, yes in Indonesia there are many places for recreation, both in the interior of the countryside and in the city, if you want to gamble, don't do it physically

Crypto + VPN = Freedom.
I am not encouraging anymore in gambling but for entertainment it's a good way.

Were you able to find the local casino in Indonesia? I don't think that the government who are after the search engines to filter the gambling sites, how can they allow gambling casinos to operate physically from their land.


You're right; Indonesia has a majority of Muslim population and those will generally adheres to Islamic principles that prohibit gambling. Based on the religion, the Indonesian government have all the rights to prohibit the gambling and its relevant searches etc. I am sure, people who wish to gamble will still find a way to access online gambling sites through VPNs etc.

Yes, you should not gamble in public places, especially if you are close to the police station, it will get you in trouble.
But if you play in a place where there are no officers at all, people won't care.

Indonesia will not be as strict either, what you see in Berta about checking the phones of visitors or tourists is just a formality for a to-do list,
even though they will not do it every day LOL.

And yes, if you ask the locals where the local casinos are hidden, they will tell you.
It was completely hidden, and only certain people could enter and know.
Rather than you are curious about local casinos, it is better to play on your mobile phone only, it will be safer.

Indonesia prohibit gambling so that is normal if their government blocked DuckDuckGo in Indonesia. That is because they don't wants to see their citizen find a casino using that search engine. But that will not stop those people to use the other search engine.

You should not playing online gambling using your phones because you can get a problem from the authorities. If you want to playing gambling, maybe you can play when you are in your hotel and no one knows what you do. But that is not a suggestion because we don't know how strict they are with a tourist.

Indonesia don't have a local casinos so you will not find that in all cities. But if you can talk with local people, maybe they know something about underground casino.

I know it's been almost a month since you've posted this, but I just stumbled upon this thread, thanks to another user's reply.

I'm going to disagree on this one, I've never used any other search engine except from Google, I believe that the rest of them don't produce relative results, but a ban on a search engine might be the start of restricted internet access and freedom. What if more search engines are banned in the future, and what if internet limitations are introduced, censoring what you're able to view?

For those governments who do have decided on banning out gambling into their country or vicinity then they dont really care on whatever revenue related kind of thing that they will really be that into.
They dont care too much about taxes and other econonomical aspect as long they could ban gambling just because they do really care about their citizens condition when it comes to possible gambling addiction
or the rise of numbers into those people who are really that affected by it. I could say that it would really be that a good gesture or actions made out by the government because it does really shows up that kind of concern and being responsible on protecting it citizens but just like on what you have said that there would really be those people who would really be trying out to bypass everything on which on the moment
that they are interested on playing gambling.

If they would really be liking to play gambling then its not really that hard to bypass any prohibition or bans even if the government would be saying so. There's tons of ways specially that accessibility nowadays
is really that too easy if you do really wanted it, then there's a way. The thing here is that better not to make yourself get caught because on the moment that you do get caught then you do really
know on what are the consequences that you would really be able to encounter. Its always been that recommended that you should really be wary about on the actions that you've been doing
on which this is really just that common sense.

This is the same mistake that a lot of countries in Asia seems to be doing. These bans and prohibitions doesn't benefit anyone. On one side, they make the government lose revenue. Gambling has existed for thousands of years and a government ban won't solve anything. Gamblers will always find a way to get their stuff going. And on the other hand, a ban will force gamblers to depend on shady actors, away from government supervision. This will increase the chances of players getting conned.   

Are you saying that the search engine isn't allowing you to search anything that's gambling related? Are you from Indonesia or are you using Indonesia VPN? Because this is the only way you can be affected, other countries should be allow or else the search engine will be behind others maybe forever because porn and gambling searches are insane now, this drives insane traffics online.

I don't use duckduckgo search, maybe twice in my life time because we have google and other search engine, even Bing is better, as for the Indonesia country, I am sure that google search engine isn't block in that region, there are people that watch porn and gamble in Indonesia till today, it's just a secret, something that's been done behind closed doors.

Sure is. That's what they have to do in order to fully ban gambling. I think it's a shortsighted move to completely ban gambling by regulation when, in reality, they can't eliminate it entirely since there are plenty of online casinos that can easily be accessed using a VPN, with some even promising no KYC. I'm sure sooner or later they'll realize that the move was wrong, and instead of monetizing from taxes by regulating it, they're losing potential revenue while the problem still persists.

Well.. actually I am glad that they blocked DuckDuckGo. This particular search engine is associated with a great number of spyware/adware/spamware factories. A lot of the spyware trojans automatically install DuckDuckGo in your browser and then change it to the default engine. The reason given is wrong, but I fully agree with the action taken by the Indonesian government. That said, I am not sure how Indonesia can prevent it's population from taking part in online gambling. They need to ban the internet in order to do so.

Indonesia is a Muslim country so they may not entertain gambling as most Muslim countries ban gambling I think Indonesia also does the same though I doubt that they might had an opportunity to be friendly in Indonesia. So, I think gambling as banned earlier and the news is fake.

The role of every government has always been to maintain the sanity of law and order in that region where they govern, so with this news about "DuckduckGo" a search engine been block in the entire Indonesia region doesn't stop you from exploring the place, if only you have had a genuine reason why you want to travel to that country, because just as been said in the article link you provided above, i'm very sure that with the help of VPN and other browsers such as Brave and Chrome, you can still be able to navigate through your usual gambling platforms during your few stau in that region. Because gambling is not the only reason why "DuckduckGo" is been banned in Indonesia, the high rate of porn search within that area is another reason that prompted that action, been a Muslim dominated region.

That only means that many of them are defying their government ruling about online gambling and they're bypassing it.

It's just sad that many countries sees gambling as something negative where it can contribute to their own economy. Just always give that tip to the players that they should do it moderately.

But if this is the kind of action that they wanna do, no one can be against them but still able to continue their gambling activities wherever they are and use some VPN.

One thing we may not know as well is about the policies and law that guides each countries, some were friendly and some were not, depending on the kind of government in place as at that moment, secondly, these same laws are subjected to review at anytime, which also tells us more on how they can make changes to anything as they like at anytime, gambling is not what we should be surprised at when things like these were behold, we should have known that all countries don't totally go in support of it.