Licensing and regulation: Can we get a licence?

No licensed gambling market exists in Indonesia, and no licence type, application pathway, or issuing authority for gambling activity is contemplated anywhere in Indonesian law. The prohibition rests on Indonesia's underlying criminal-law framework, treated as durable, though its text was not independently re-verified at primary-source level this cycle. This cycle's development is not a change to the prohibition itself but a classification extension: Komdigi has moved to formally treat event-outcome prediction markets as a form of online gambling regardless of how the product frames itself, following its block of the offshore platform Polymarket on 22 May 2026. This is a regulator administrative classification rather than a change in primary legislation, and is accordingly fragile, resting on a single tier-three source this cycle, but it signals that Indonesian regulators read gambling law expansively enough to capture novel wagering-adjacent products that might elsewhere be treated as distinct from gambling.