Sahroni Urges Police to Pursue Backers and Funders of 320 Foreign Nationals in Jakarta Online Gambling Syndicate

Jakarta - Deputy Chairman of Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Ahmad Sahroni, has urged the National Police (Polri), in collaboration with the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), to pursue the financiers and backers supporting the operations of an international online gambling (judol) network in Jakarta.

According to Sahroni, the presence of 320 foreign nationals running the online gambling business at Hayam Wuruk Plaza Tower could not possibly operate without support from powerful actors behind the scenes.

“Next, Polri must collaborate with PPATK to trace the flow of funds from this illicit business. Who is paying them? Who is facilitating? There must be financiers. It’s impossible for more than 300 foreign nationals to operate without strong actors behind them,” Sahroni said when contacted on Monday (11/5/2026).

“And it is suspected that there is involvement from local networks. Whether foreign nationals or Indonesian citizens, all must be arrested, without favouritism. Polri and PPATK must eradicate it down to the roots,” Sahroni stressed.

“The most important thing is that all the arrested perpetrators must be processed under Indonesian law. They committed crimes here, so none should escape without first being held accountable according to the applicable law in Indonesia,” he concluded.

A day after the arrests, Polri revealed that the 320 individuals secured were foreign nationals, and their detention has been handed over to the Directorate General of Immigration under the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.

Meanwhile, one other individual is an Indonesian citizen and is now being further processed by the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim Polri). The Indonesian national was known to have been involved in an international online gambling network in Cambodia.