Operator of 3 Online Gambling Sites Arrested in Central Jakarta, Earning Hundreds of Millions of Rupiah Since 2024
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The Tanjung Priok Port Resort Police arrested an online gambling (judol) operator with the initials ZF (24), who managed three sites from his home in Central Jakarta.
Tanjung Priok Port Resort Police Chief AKBP Aris Wibowo explained that the suspect acted as an operator running the operations of three judol sites using a mobile phone.
“The suspect’s modus operandi involved handling operations or acting as an operator for online gambling sites. He managed three online gambling sites via a mobile phone,” he said when met at the Tanjung Priok Port Police Station on Monday (20/4/2026).
Aris revealed that ZF promoted the judol sites by purchasing numbers from social media, then sending mass messages inviting people to play.
“The suspect then conducted WhatsApp blasting to those numbers containing invitations to gamble online on these three sites,” he explained.
ZF also profited from players’ deposits, both from judol deposits and from profit differences from the percentage of deposits provided.
Aris stated that they are still tallying the total profits obtained by the suspect. However, based on preliminary findings, the amount reaches hundreds of millions of rupiah since 2024.
“We are still tallying the profits because we haven’t received results from PPATK yet, but from the transactions we seized from the suspect’s bank accounts, we are calculating around hundreds of millions that the suspect obtained,” he said.
ZF is known to have been an operator since 2020, stopped for a while, resumed in 2022, and was active from 2024 until his arrest.
The police suspect there are other perpetrators involved in the judol network, so the case is still being developed.
“We suspect there are other suspects connected to the one we arrested. There’s a wanted suspect with initials KZ. So we’re still trying to uncover more because we believe he wasn’t managing the sites alone,” Aris stated.
ZF is charged under Article 45 paragraph (3) in conjunction with Article 27 paragraph (2) of Law No. 1 of 2024 on Electronic Information and Transactions.
“This carries a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to 10 billion rupiah, and Article 426 paragraph 1 letters a, b, c of Law No. 1 of 2023 on the Criminal Code with a maximum imprisonment of 9 years and a fine of category 6,” he added.