Bareskrim dismantles online gambling business targeting Indonesians
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Directorate of Special Economic Crimes (Dittipideksus) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim Polri) has dismantled an online gambling (judol) business that targets the Indonesian public as its user base (market).
Director of Dittipideksus Bareskrim Polri, Brigadier General Ade Sarif Simanjuntak, stated that the perpetrators of the online gambling have been arrested and detained. They acted as controllers of the gambling operation since 2022 and reaped profits of up to Rp3 billion.
“The controller of the online gambling site is a man named LT alias T (40), who has been running the operations of the online gambling site since around 2022,” Ade said in his statement in Jakarta on Thursday.
He explained that the perpetrator has been a suspect since December 2025 and has 17 employees consisting of 1 manager, 2 admins, 13 operators, and 1 auditor to run the online gambling site operations, all located in Cambodia.
The case came to light, he said, from the results of cyber patrols conducted by Bareskrim Polri investigators in early December 2025. Online gambling activities were discovered.
From the analysis and profiling of several online gambling sites accessible to the Indonesian public, namely Civitoto and Jalutoto, which provide various types of online gambling games such as casino gambling, lottery gambling, slot gambling, e-lottery gambling, arcade gambling, and poker gambling.
“The site uses a deposit and withdrawal system through bank accounts in Indonesia, so it is strongly suspected that the site targets Indonesians as users,” Ade revealed.
From the results of those cyber patrols, investigators then created a model A report as the basis for conducting investigations and prosecutions in the case.
Based on that report, further profiling was carried out until the owner and controller of the online gambling site were identified.
From the investigation results, he continued, it was found that the suspect earned profits from the online gambling site operations of Rp200 million to Rp300 million per month.
“It is suspected that during running the business for approximately 3 years, the suspect has obtained profits of around Rp3 billion,” Ade said.
Based on the investigation facts obtained by the investigators and sufficient evidence, the arrest of LT alias T was carried out at his residence in Pagedangan Subdistrict, Tangerang Regency, Banten.
“The suspect has been detained since 6 December 2025 until 4 April 2026 at the Bareskrim Polri detention centre,” he said.
The suspect is charged under Article 45 paragraph (3) jo Article 27 paragraph (2) of Law No. 1 of 2024 on the Second Amendment to Law No. 11 of 2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions jo Article 55 paragraph (1) first and/or Article 303 paragraph (1) second of Law No. 1 of 1946 on the Criminal Code and/or Articles 4, 5, and 10 of Law No. 8 of 2010 on the Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering Crimes (TPPU).