Indonesia Gambling Law!
I want to open this topic wide because somehow it is dangering the internet freedom rights to the people in Indonesia. Sbobet in Indonesia are on their parth.
I’m trying to scratch some topics on the surface, and if resources are giving me the ability to discover something, I might go more in-depth.
So let start.
Questions about Online Gambling in Indonesia
OK, before to start, I wanted to ask myself a few questions about online gambling in Indonesia.
Here a few facts upon which I would raise a few questions and try to answer them or leave them unanswered.
The fact that Indonesia has strict law rules about gambling and casinos.
The fact that porn and explicit websites are forbidden.
The fact act that they implemented some form of algorithm to filter almost 95% of the Indonesian traffic for banning porn and “unwanted” websites as online casino and betting websites.
How they ban online casinos and online gambling websites?
I did extensive research, and I conclude that for ban the online casinos in Indonesia and betting websites are used one feature on Google called Google SmartSearch, which is by default activated when you get on Indonesia soil.
As I understand, the primary 25 IPS providers in Indonesia provide and include this feature for filtering the traffic, so if you type unwanted keywords, you will not get results from the Google search engine.
Nevertheless, I find out that this system is not 100% accurate, and the Indonesia government takes a push further, so it started to Hard ban the website, so basically, if your website is on a blacklist for forbidden websites from Ministry of Social Affairs people in Indonesia without using VPN can not access on that particular website.
So this is done by the help of Google in the August 2018 year, and so far, more than 1 million websites were ban from the Google search engine.
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The hardcore ban estimation is that every 3 months average about 100.000 websites are offline.
How to protect your website in Indonesia to not be banned?
This topic is something that is a massive problem for anyone in Indonesia and full censorship or internet freedom.
You can have a website content but to not express your real true nature?
This statement is very awkward because all are equal in front of written laws.
Someone can have a privileged status, and someone yet can create some expression but censored.
There are two possibilities of how to defend your website not to be censored by Indonesian authorities and banned from the Indonesian audience.
I’m not talking about the fact that you can bypass all filters using a VPN, but it seems that near future, this might be under full control from Indonesian authorities also.
OK, on the domain level, here are two solutions.
The first is to create a subdomain and try on this way to bypass censorship if you have as assets, then give to the subdomain’s own IP address.
The second is to create and work under its IP address.
SafeSearch and Hardcore ban don’t influence this at all.
The hypothesis about what is behind ban’s of Gambling websites
As you can see online on Wikipedia or other metrics websites, you can establish that the majority of Indonesians are Muslim, exactly about 85% of the whole population. Because religion is prohibiting them from sexually explicit content freedom or casino activities, they want to take down all casinos and gambling activities.
Something strange is going on when official documents talk about the fact that religious Affairs ministry, together with Indonesia Ulama Council (MUI), is having the opportunity and is giving per year 8000 licenses about so-called free lotteries?
This action of government is bizarre at all.
From one side, all gambling activities on the company level are strictly forbidden from another gambling in Indonesia and are governmentally level controlled.
The very unusual practice, I must say.
