Gambling is the betting of money or something of value for the outcome of an uncertain event with the intention of winning more money, since the looser will have pay the betting money or hand over the goods to the winner. This was an ancient form of entertainment, which happened in gambling houses called Casino. As days passed by gambling began its establishment in other fields especially sports. Sports betting or gambling has been in practice from a long time all over the world. Sports gambling had numerous negative effects both on the sport and the player.
Gambling is made illegal in many countries around the world, the one country that has the highest rate of gambling in the world is Indonesia, เว็บบอล and the government has taken steps to reduce the rate of gambling by imposing strict laws and corporal punishments to the people who do gambling. The Indonesian gambling is called Judi.
Online betting
As the world evolved gambling also evolved into its electronic form by using the internet as the media to reach the people worldwide. Online gambling began its influence amongst the players in no time. A person can gamble from anywhere in the world just by accessing the internet. Gambling took its root into sports, where a group of gamblers bet for their favourite team to win, the gamblers of the winning team will get their share from the money of the loosing team of gamblers.
Sports betting started evolving, and the gamblers started paying the player of the team and asking them to play according to the result what gamblers had decided. This killed the sport and the sportsmanship of the players. The two sports where betting is too high in Indonesia is football and horse riding. Online betting or gambling in Indonesia is called เว็บบอล.
Role of the government to reduce online betting
The Indonesian government has come up with a solution to finally put an end to the online gambling. The social affairs ministry is proving eight thousand licenses with a one year subscription to online gambling websites, only those websites can gamble with lotteries and other gambling games as in the casino. The social and religious affairs ministry along with other two ministries are integration their resources to tighten up the network of online gambling so that the illegal online gambling websites can be identified and blocked. The communication and online ministry serves an important role in filtering the illegal online websites. By doing so illegal online betting can be reduced significantly.