Kemkomdigi Interns Develop Technology to Detect Online Gambling and Manage Tower Data
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Interns at the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Kemkomdigi) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to detect online gambling promotions and proposed automating the management of telecommunications tower registration data.
The proposals were presented directly to Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid at the National Internship Town Hall Meeting, held at the RRI Auditorium in Central Jakarta on Monday.
One intern, Bayu Setia of Yogyakarta University of Technology, who is placed as an AI Engineer at Kemkomdigi’s Digital Talent Development Centre, presented work on an AI system to detect online gambling promotional content.
Bayu said a key challenge was the changing tactics used to promote online gambling, including disguising words through combinations of letters and numbers.
“People can understand whether a comment is ordinary conversation or an online gambling promotion, whereas AI needs to be trained to distinguish between them,” Bayu explained.
According to Bayu, detecting online gambling cannot rely solely on keyword matching. The technology must understand context and adapt to changing promotional patterns.
“We, as interns and as a team, offered an insight: the solution is to build an adaptive online gambling detection system with continuously updated data,” he said.
The work on tower registration involved understanding the data submission process, managing user access rights and using GIS coordinates to identify telecommunications tower locations across Indonesia.
Fiola described the work and cases the team handled in registering passive telecommunications infrastructure towers, including the submission process, multi-role user structure, coordination and discussions with the team.
“We identified several issues in tower data governance: there is no automated data checking, tower providers use differing data standards, and some information is restricted, requiring access rights to be managed,” she said.
As a follow-up, Fiola and Kartika proposed introducing an automated data pipeline, conducting user trials of the system and consulting stakeholders.
Responding to the interns’ presentations, Minister Meutya Hafid said their involvement in developing technological solutions was a tangible contribution by the younger generation to addressing national challenges, particularly in the digital sector.
“You are not just doing an internship; you are contributing directly to the country’s challenges. However small, it is certainly very helpful, because we face many challenges, especially in the digital sphere,” Meutya said.
Meutya also encouraged the interns to appreciate the opportunity to take part in the programme and to take pride in the institution where they gained experience and made a contribution.