Indonesia fights to combat illegal online gambling surge
Indonesia fights to combat illegal online gambling surge

While gambling is illegal in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation -- with sentences of up to six years in prison -- government figures show around 3.7 million Indonesians engaged in it last year, placing more than $20 billion in bets.

The stats prompted President Joko Widodo in June to set up a task force headed by the country's security minister and that month the government ordered telecoms providers to block overseas gambling websites -- typically in Cambodia and the Philippines.

In Bogor, south of the capital Jakarta, a clinic at a psychiatry hospital has been treating patients struggling to break their gambling addiction since the beginning of the year.

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