progresifjaya.id, JAKARTA – During the period 8 June to 11 July 2024, the Polres Metro Jakarta Barat succeeded in uncovering 23 cases of online gambling (judol) with turnover reaching Rp200 billion. A total of 29 people were caught, of which 17 people were judol players and 12 people were telemarketers.
Kapolres Metro Jakarta Barat, Kombes Pol M. Syahduddi in his statement explained, that based on search results, it was discovered that the 23 judol sites that were dismantled were an international syndicate network in Cambodia with a turnover of Rp200 billion in the last three months.
“The Polres Metro Jakarta Barat, Polda Metro Jaya and other Polsek officers over the past month have managed to uncover 23 cases of online gambling. Among these cases, one case stole attention when seven people hacked a government site into an online gambling site in an apartment in the Grogol area. Petamburan, Jakarta Barat,” explained Kombes Pol M. Syahduddi at the Polres Metro Jakarta Barat, Friday, (11/7) yesterday.
“The total transactions in the last three months for this case were Rp170 billion. The number of transactions is the largest compared to other cases,” he added.
He explained, that the seven suspects carried out their actions to make money by looking for sites belonging to government agencies or educational institutions that had weak security systems. Then the site was hacked and rented to a Cambodian judol network.
“When it was successfully hacked, the perpetrators rented out the site address to online gambling players in Cambodia. The value of the rental proceeds varied. It depended on how much the site was visited or played by online gambling players. The range was between Rp3 million to Rp20 million per day per rented site,” said Kapolres M Syahduddi again.
Currently, the 29 people who were arrested have become suspects and are being held at the Polres Metro Jakarta Barat. They are subject to Article 45 paragraph 3 in conjunction with Article 27 paragraph 2 of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2024 concerning the Second Amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions and/or Article 303 of the Criminal Code concerning Gambling. The threat of punishment that can be obtained is a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. (Bembo)