The future of the industry

Indonesia will maintain a policy of completely banning gambling, shifting efforts towards technological control: proactive blocking of domains and applications, tracking transactions through financial monitoring, suppressing crypto payments and P2P cash-outs, expanding cyber units of the police and interdepartmental groups.

Higher fines, targeted campaigns against advertising/affiliates and the integration of eKYC/AML into payment services are likely.

Discussions of partial legalization (lotteries/sports betting) remain unlikely: public and religious consensus is stable.

Key risks - migration of demand abroad and the growth of shadow online schemes; the answer is education, collaboration with platforms and banks, and forensic analytics to identify networks and intermediaries.