Jakarta, May 15 -- Deputy Speaker of Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly Lestari Moerdijat called for broad and coordinated measures to prevent children from being exposed to online gambling, following reports that nearly 200,000 minors have been affected.

"Preventing children and teenagers from being exposed to online gambling must be carried out collectively and comprehensively to protect the nation's future generation," she said in a statement in Jakarta on Friday.

Her remarks followed data from the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs showing nearly 200,000 Indonesian children had been exposed to online gambling, including 80,000 under the age of 10.

Moerdijat said the figures posed a serious threat to Indonesia's h...