Jakarta (AFP) – While gambling is illegal in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation — with sentences of up to six years in prison — government figures show around 3.7 million Indonesians engaged in it last year, placing more than $20 billion in bets. The stats prompted President Joko Widodo in June to set up a task force headed by the country’s security minister and that month the government ordered telecoms providers to block overseas gambling websites — typically in Cambodia and the Philippines. In Bogor, south of the capital Jakarta, a clinic at a psychiatry hospital has been treating patients struggling to break their gambling addiction since the beginning of the year. ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES
