Online Casinos in Indonesia

The Legal Position

Online gambling is prohibited in Indonesia, and the prohibition is prosecuted. The Attorney General's Office, in a public notice issued through the Ponorogo District Prosecutor's Office, states that online gambling is a serious criminal offence carrying a heavy penalty, and sets out its legal basis as Article 45(3) read with Article 27(2) of Law No. 1 of 2024, the second amendment to the Electronic Information and Transactions Law, together with Articles 426 and 427 of the new Criminal Code, Law No. 1 of 2023. The penalties it states are imprisonment of up to ten years and a fine of up to ten billion rupiah.

The Supreme Court's Directorate General of Religious Courts describes the same structure from the judicial side: gambling is dealt with in the Criminal Code, and online gambling specifically in Article 27(2) of the Electronic Information and Transactions Law and its amendments. Article 27(2) prohibits intentionally and without right distributing, transmitting or making accessible electronic information or electronic documents with gambling content. The earlier penalty under Article 45(2) of Law No. 19 of 2016 was up to six years' imprisonment and a fine of up to one billion rupiah; the 2024 amendment is the instrument the prosecution service now cites.

Which Criminal Code applies has changed recently. The National Police's Criminal Information Centre records that the Government and the House of Representatives passed Law No. 1 of 2023 on the Criminal Code on 6 December 2022, and that after a transition and public-information period the new Criminal Code formally came into force on 2 January 2026. The gambling provisions in it are Articles 426 and 427. Older descriptions of Indonesian gambling law that cite only Articles 303 and 303 bis of the colonial-era Criminal Code are describing the position before that date.

Enforcement and Site Blocking

A presidential instrument created a dedicated body: Presidential Decree No. 21 of 2024 established the Online Gambling Eradication Task Force. Provincial police report routine action against operators and against those who transmit or distribute access to online gambling.

The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs publishes the scale of its own work. As of October 2026 it had handled 4.1 million items of gambling content in the digital space, of which 3.6 million were sites and IP addresses, against which the Government can cut off access. The Minister's own assessment is that blocking is not the end of the problem: the pattern shows online gambling to have the character of a transnational crime, with the infrastructure capable of sitting outside Indonesia while people in Indonesia are the target.

The Money Trail

The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre has set out the financial scale. Its figures, as reported by the Supreme Court's Directorate General of Religious Courts, put online gambling transactions at 190 trillion rupiah over the period from 2017 to 2022.

What Is Available Instead

No lottery, betting route or licensed venue is established as lawful by any of the sources cited.