Bareskrim Uncovers Online Gambling Network Using Social Media Comment Spam
The Cyber Crime Directorate (Dittipidsiber) of the Indonesian National Police (Bareskram Polri) has uncovered an online gambling network that utilises spam comments on social media to direct users to several online gambling websites.
Brigadier General Adex Yudiswan, Director of Cyber Crime at Bareskrim Polri, stated during a press conference in Jakarta on Thursday that the discovery originated from information reports from the Ministry of Communication and Digital (Komdigi) in June 2026 regarding the prevalence of spam comments on social media accounts containing online gambling content.
Investigators subsequently conducted investigations and cyber patrols, discovering spam comments directing users to several gambling sites, namely Garam26, Sor54, and Rawit14, which are directly linked to the Pusat JP68 website.
“It is conveyed to our media colleagues that these online gambling websites operate on both national and international scales. Based on the results of field investigations by investigators, it was found that the control and operational centre for all these websites is located abroad,” said Adex.
As a measure to protect the public, the Cyber Crime Directorate has submitted a request for access termination (take down) to the Ministry of Communication and Digital for all such sites to ensure they are inaccessible to the public.
Based on Police Report Number LPA/197/2026 dated 2 July 2026, investigators arrested three suspects. These include TRN, who was apprehended on 7 July 2026 in Depok, West Java, for acting as the owner of bank accounts used to collect online gambling funds. From TRN, investigators seized two mobile phones, one ID card, one mobile banking account, and one DANA account.
The second suspect, TP, was arrested on 7 July 2026 in Jakarta, acting as a captain for collecting bank accounts. Evidence seized included one ID card, nine ATM books, and 24 ATM cards.
Following the development of the case involving the three suspects, investigators identified two individuals on the wanted list (DPO), namely JS and AS. JS is alleged to have acted as an account captain who instructed TRN to create accounts to collect online gambling funds, while AS is identified as the leader of the Pusat JP68 gambling site, who issued orders to CR and JS to collect accounts.
“And subsequently, based on police report number LPA/197/2026 dated 2 July 2026, the Cyber Crime Directorate has successfully arrested three suspects,” said Adex.
This exposure is part of the Cyber Crime Directorate’s ongoing efforts to break the operational chain of online gambling through cyber patrols, enforcement against networks of fund-collection accounts, and the termination of access to websites that promote gambling via social media.