Yogyakarta — Communication Science students of Universitas ‘Aisyiyah (UNISA) Yogyakarta held a public oration themed “Stop Clicking, Start Living: Every Click Can Take Your Life” at the Zero Kilometer Point in Yogyakarta, Wednesday (2/7/2025). This action is a form of concern and an effort to reject the rampant online gambling that threatens the younger generation.
Dean of the UNISA Faculty of Health Sciences, Ali Imron, highlighted how easy access to technology has become a trap for students to fall into online gambling.
“What is needed now is a soft rule, educating and making students understand about being careful when clicking and surfing the internet,” said Ali Imron.
One of the action organizers, student Reza Alghifari, emphasized the importance of public awareness to stay away from online gambling.
“As a young person, I want to give the best impression to the public that they must also stop and be aware of the negative impacts of online gambling,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Director of Informatics Application Control of the Ministry of Communication and Digital (Kemenkomdigi), Teguh Arifiyadi, stated that the government continues to tighten supervision of online gambling activities. In addition, his party has also pocketed more than 400 thousand accounts and tens of thousands of cellphone numbers suspected of being involved in online gambling.
“Komdigi has a database containing more than 300-400 thousand accounts suspected of being criminal, including judol accounts. Not only accounts, we also have a blacklist of around tens of thousands of mobile numbers,” explained Teguh.
This database has been used by more than 30 payment system providers to strengthen the verification system, so that transactions to blacklisted accounts or numbers can be detected and prevented.
“If all are connected, or required to be connected, it means that the collection of blacklist databases of accounts and mobile numbers is also used to prevent transactions,” he added.
The government also plans to expand the types of data entered into the blacklist system, such as NIK, email addresses, and crypto wallets, to make efforts to eradicate online gambling more effective. *
