Jokowi Responds to BP2MI Head’s Statement Regarding Online Gambling Actor with the Initials T
SEMISLOT88 – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) responded to the statement by the Head of the Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection Agency (BP2MI) Benny Ramdhani regarding the actor behind online gambling in Indonesia from Cambodia with the initials T. Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s father emphasized that this information should be investigated by the relevant institution. “I don’t know, ask Mr. Benny,” he said after inaugurating the Batang Integrated Industrial Area (KITB), Batang Regency, Central Java, Friday (26/7/2024). online gambling in Indonesia from Cambodia with the initials T to the President to the National Police Chief.
Benny said that T’s report to President Joko Widodo and National Police Chief General Sigit was made at a limited meeting at the Palace. According to him, Jokowi and Listyo responded with surprise after learning about the actor controlling online gambling.
“You can ask the Coordinating Minister, Mahfud MD, at that time. The President was surprised, the National Police Chief was surprised, there was quite a stir at the limited meeting,” said Benny at the Inauguration and Debriefing event for PMI Friends in Medan, quoted Thursday (25/7/2023). He added that the actor controlling online gambling T is a figure who cannot be touched by law in Indonesia. However, Bennya did not explain in detail the identity of this T figure. “This person [T]is a person who as long as this Republic exists may be untouchable by law,” he added. Meanwhile, T is also suspected of being the person who employed Indonesian citizens in cases of illegal placement in Cambodia to be assigned to online gambling practices. Thus, Benny asked the government to immediately take firm action against the bookie and the figure behind the illegal placement case. “We apologize with all due respect. It’s time for the state to take firm action, not only dragging down the brokers, accomplices, but also by law capable of touching their dealers, who we categorize as criminals who sell the nation’s children,” concluded Benny.
