{"id":465329,"date":"2026-02-07T23:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465329\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:54:07","slug":"indonesia-arrests-dozens-in-bali-gambling-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465329\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia arrests dozens in Bali gambling crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">JAKARTA &#8211; The Indonesian authorities have arrested dozens of Indian nationals in a crackdown on online gambling operations on the popular tourist island of Bali, police said on Feb 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Gambling is illegal in the Muslim-majority archipelago, with punishments extended to bookmakers, punters and those who promote gambling content online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police raided two villas on the resort island on Feb 3, arresting 39 Indian nationals and seizing phones, laptops and computers, Bali police chief Daniel Adityajaya said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He said 35 of the suspects had been charged with gambling-related offences, while four others remained under questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The suspects, who entered Indonesia on tourist visas, have allegedly been promoting and managing transactions for an online gambling site since late last 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The operation brought in up to 8 billion rupiah (S$604,000) a month, said the police chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cA preliminary investigation shows that they opened and operated an office in Bali to take advantage of Bali\u2019s status as an international tourist destination to avoid suspicion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">They face multiple charges, including organising gambling activities, which under Indonesia\u2019s new penal code carries a sentence of up to nine years in prison, Bali police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Turnover linked to online gambling reached more than 280 trillion rupiah in 2025, official data showed, with more than 12 million Indonesians estimated to be engaged in the illicit activity. AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAKARTA &#8211; The Indonesian authorities have arrested dozens of Indian nationals in a crackdown on online gambling operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-465329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}