A significant increase of illegal online gambling workers from Indonesia in Cambodia marks the weakness of security cooperation between the two countries.
Both governments seem to lack preventive action and coordination. In 2020-2023, the number of Indonesian citizens connected to scams and online gambling in Cambodia surged from 15 to 1.386 cases. Another statistics show that 60% of Indonesian workers in Cambodia involve in online gambling industry.
These figures are alarming for both countries as well as other Southeast Asian nations. This issue should also be the concern of ASEAN as a regional bloc to manage the problem multilaterally.
In full: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/08/12/indonesia-cambodia-partnership-to-counter-online-gambling/
