Antara, Jakarta – The Communication and Digital Affairs Ministry has shut down three Instagram accounts with a combined following of over one million for promoting online gambling activ

Devy Ernis, Antara, Jakarta – Ahmad Zuhdi Muhdlor, chairman of the Tanfidziyah of the Nahdlatul Ulama Regional Board (PWNU) of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, proposed that the govern

Beritasatu Team, Jakarta – Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid urged mobile telecommunication operators to tighten monitoring of phone credit, commonly known as puls

Aqida Salma – Indonesia's democracy faces the threat of digital authoritarianism.

Mita Amalia Hapsari, Ilham Oktafian, Rizal Ramli, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesian police have ramped up their crackdown on online gambling following President Prabowo Subianto's dir

Sekarsari Sugihartono – Indonesia's decision to block the Chinese e-commerce platform Temu reflects a significant shift in its economic and political stance toward protecting local busi

Mericio Juvinal dos Reis "Akara", Rheinhard Sirait – Timor-Leste is on the brink of a digital revolution with the anticipated arrival of a submarine cable promising faster and more affo

Abdul Muslim, Jakarta – Internet coverage across Indonesia, an archipelagic nation with over 17,000 islands, has reached 97 percent, extending from Sabang in Aceh to Merauke in Papua, a

Abdul Muslim, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has officially banned the Chinese trading app Temu, citing its potential disruptions among local small and medium enterprises.

Nabiila Azzahra, Antara, Han Revanda Putra, Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Petir Garda B, Jakarta – The Ministry of Cooperatives and Small, Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is trying to remove Temu, a ma

Ary Hermawan – A troll social media account under the name of Fufufafa in Indonesia's oldest chat forum, Kaskus, has sparked speculation about the relationship dynamics between presiden

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) plans to take serious action against individuals responsible for creating a fake website using the party's domain

Tim Tempo, Jakarta – The Daily Chair of the Gerindra Party, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, has responded to the Kaskus social media account named Fufufafa, which has been accused of frequently atta

Zhulfakar, Jakarta – Over the past decade, Indonesia has dramatically increased its internet penetration from 34.9 percent to 79.5 percent, now reaching around 221 million people, accor

Muhammad Ridwan – The Instagram account belonging to Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), @sahabaticw (@friendsoficw), was suspended or temporarily blocked by Meta.

Abdul Muslim, Jakarta – Indonesia has mandated that 18,232 private electronic system providers (PSEs), including major firms like Google, Meta, TikTok, and X, sign an integrity pact to

Sella Rizky Deviani, Jakarta – The Communication and Informatics Ministry has issued a regulation capping cellphone credit balance transfers at Rp 1 million ($62) per day as part of an

Jakarta – The Communication and Information Ministry said on Friday it has banned the privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo, citing concerns that it could be used to access pornogra

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, National Police chief Gen.

Stefani Wijaya, Maria Gabrielle, Jakarta – Benny Rhamdani, the Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI), claimed in a forum that an individual known as "T" is or

Teguh Adi Prasetyo, Jakarta – Communication and Information Technology Minister Budi Arie Setiadi claims his ministry has saved the state Rp 45 trillion ($2.8 billion) by blocking 2.6 m

Nida Sahara, Jakarta – The state-run Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) has blocked at least a thousand accounts linked to online gambling.

Vinnilya Huanggrio, Jakarta – The government has cut off access to online gambling networks operating from Thailand and Cambodia, an official said in a recent interview.

Ilham Oktafian, Jakarta – Twelve unsuspecting job applicants have handed over personal data and copies of their identity cards, only to find themselves indebted by over Rp 1 billion (ar

Thomas Rizal, Jakarta – Online gambling is so rampant in Indonesia that the country's lawmakers are also among the players, and calls are mounting for some firm action against these law

Antara, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is actively investigating allegations that several of its employees are engaged in online gambling activities.

Jakarta – Bogor Police have arrested four female influencers in West Java over the past week for allegedly promoting online gambling via their social media accounts amid the government'

Jakarta – Aboy and his older brother stole motorbikes in East Java, an elderly man broke into a shoe store and stole shoes in West Sumatra, a village head embezzled his village fund in

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The nation's online gambling controversy has deepened following reports that Indonesians from all walks of life have become addicted to the practice, including so

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – The newly launched Task Force against Online Gambling has arrested at least seven social media personalities for endorsing gambling on their Instagra

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The National Police are investigating reports that data from its Indonesia Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (Inafis) were being sold on the dark web af

Resty Woro Yuniar – In a rare admission, Indonesian authorities revealed that last week's catastrophic collapse of the country's immigration system was caused by hackers using new ranso

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Financial Transactions Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) revealed that 1,000 members of the House of Representatives (DPR) and Regional Legislative Counci

Antara, Jakarta – Minister of Communication and Information Technology Budi Arie Setiadi has instructed all internet service providers (ISPs) to cut off network access suspected of faci

Medikantyo Adhikresna, Jakarta – State Apparatus Minister Abdullah Azwar Anas said Monday that there should be more comprehensive measures against civil servants who were into online ga

Jakarta – In recent weeks, we have been alerted to a string of gambling-related suicides and other forms of deep distress resulting from the illegal practice, including the case of a wo

Alifia Sekar, Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry is planning to "take care" of Elaelo.id, a website that claims to be a social media site that emerged and went viral

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Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Hadi Tjahjanto, who leads the newly established anti-online gambling task force, said on Wednesday that his team wa

Stefanno Sulaiman and Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – The government has shut down more than 2 million websites offering illegal online gambling services, the communications minister said o

Antara, Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) has blocked 5,000 bank accounts, both individual and group, linked to online gambling cases.

Alfi Dinilhaq, Jakarta – Chinese tech giant Bytedance is planning to lay off 450 employees in Indonesia as it restructures operations after merging its e-commerce unit TikTok Shop with

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – The surge in online gambling has raised significant concerns due to its adverse societal impacts.

Jakarta – The Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry has highlighted the importance of digital literacy in preventing online sexual exploitation of women and children.

Mita Amalia Hapsari, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo vowed on Wednesday to launch a massive crackdown on online gambling, which he said involves transnational networks.

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Minister of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) Budi Arie Setiadi spoke about the establishment of a Social Media Council before the Commission I of th

Jakarta – In democracies, social media is a double-edged sword.

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – Publicly listed telco firm Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison will launch a large language model (LLM) for the Indonesian language called Garuda in July, according to the

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo told his ministers on Monday to stop coming up with new apps in a bid to cut the bureaucratic red tape and put the brakes on

Hendro D Situmorang, Jakarta – The Indonesian government on Friday announced a stringent new measure to combat online gambling, threatening to impose fines of Rp 500 million (approximat