inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment, Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar, visited Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) to see patients addicted to online gambling.

On that occasion, he remarked that online gambling is a social disaster that threatens the survival of society.

"Online gambling is a social disaster, a disease that damages the cycle of community welfare. Involving no less than 8.8 million Indonesians as victims and perpetrators caught in this gambling," said Minister Muhaimin or famously called Cak Imin on Friday (11/15/2024).

He noted that a total of more than 100 people are being treated at RSCM due to online gambling addiction throughout 2024. He said that most online gambling victims come from the lower middle economic class.

He also conveyed a message from President Prabowo Subianto who emphasized that all parties must be alert to overcoming gambling as the circulation of money is flowing abroad.

"Because of what? IDR 900 trillion per year of money flows abroad from our people. We cannot ignore this further," he explained.

In addition, gambling has a devastating impact on the mental and spiritual conditions of its addicts.

 "Online gambling addicts experience worrying conditions, their behavior, their lives are destroyed and the state must take action,” he concluded.

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