{"id":1010150,"date":"2026-05-27T08:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010150"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:22:59","slug":"indonesia-blocks-polymarket-over-online-gambling-concerns-after-bets-on-presidents-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/indonesia-blocks-polymarket-over-online-gambling-concerns-after-bets-on-presidents-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia blocks Polymarket over online gambling concerns after bets on president&#8217;s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia has blocked predictions market Polymarket as part of its crackdown on online gambling, its communications and digital ministry said, days after the site took bets on a premature end to Prabowo Subianto&#8217;s presidency. Gambling is \u200cillegal in \u2060Indonesia \u2060and authorities have been clamping down on online betting. <\/p>\n<p>Ministry official Alexander \u200bSabar in a statement late on Friday said Polymarket was classified by Indonesia \u200bas an online gambling platform and its activities &#8220;contain betting and speculation over events that are inconclusive&#8221;, therefore violating Indonesian law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia has blocked predictions market Polymarket as part of its crackdown on online gambling, its communications and digital ministry said, days after the site took bets on a premature end to Prabowo Subianto&#8217;s presidency. Gambling is \u200cillegal in \u2060Indonesia \u2060and authorities have been clamping down on online betting. Ministry official Alexander \u200bSabar in a statement late on Friday said Polymarket was classified by Indonesia \u200bas an online gambling platform and its activities &#8220;contain betting and speculation over events that are inconclusive&#8221;, therefore violating Indonesian law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010171,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010150\/revisions\/1010171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}