The Urgency of Special Regulations for online Gambling in Indonesia

In this era of digital disruption, gambling is ever-present in virtual spaces, accessible via websites on the internet. Online gambling sites have been growing since the birth of websites in 1990 and started becoming an "internet sensation" in the early 2000s. This paper focuses on the first issue, which is how online gambling is regulated in Indonesian positive law, and the second issue, which is the urgency of overcoming online gambling as a new disease of society.With normative juridical research methods and an analytical-descriptive approach, this research relies on secondary data in the form of primary and secondary legal materials. The result shows that the laws and regulations in Indonesia, which are still conventional, are unable to overcome online gambling. Considering that online gambling is addictive, closely related, and encourages various crimes—namely buying and selling bank account numbers, fraud, data theft, and money laundering—and considering that the internet can be easily used by anybody, a thorough and systemic countermeasure against online gambling is urgent.