Bandung Woman Arrested for Promoting Gambling on Instagram
Bandung. The Bandung Metropolitan Police have detained a woman for promoting online gambling on her Instagram account, marking the latest arrest of social media personalities endorsing gambling on their platforms.
The suspect, a 25-year-old Bandung resident identified by the initials RV, was arrested after she tagged a gambling website in her Instagram posts, an officer said on Tuesday.
"We arrested RV because she had tagged the link of a gambling website in her Instagram stories and gained financial income from her posts," said Abdul Rahman, head of the criminal investigation unit of the Bandung Metropolitan Police.
The suspect has around 77,000 followers on her Instagram account.
Her earnings ranged between Rp 2.5 million and Rp 6.5 million ($400) depending on the number of views of her posts, the officer added.
Police said she has been promoting gambling websites for the past four years.
She is charged under the newly-amended Electronic Information and Transaction Law for distributing gambling content, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a fine of up to Rp 10 billion.
The Task Force against Online Gambling recently arrested seven Instagram users in Banten and Lampung for endorsing gambling websites.
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