Kalshi's taker fee is 0.07 × contracts × price × (1 − price), times the series multiplier (1 by default) and rounded up to the next cent, so it peaks at 1.75¢ per contract at a 50¢ price. Resting (maker) orders are free on standard series and pay a fee only on the series Kalshi lists with maker fees.
Country-by-country rules, regulator actions and sources for Polymarket and Kalshi.
This is not legal advice, and we don't say whether trading is legal for you in Indonesia. We report what each platform's published rules say about Indonesia and the public regulator, court and police actions we could source, each with a date. Those rules change fast, so check the platform's current terms and the law in Indonesia before doing anything. ‘Not listed’ only means a platform's own list doesn't name Indonesia; it doesn't mean trading there is permitted.
Status under each platform's own published rules, and the most recent public action we could source, as of 2026-09-24.
Last public action: 2026-05-22 · Komdigi (Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs) · Blocking order (Polymarket)
Source: Official
Dated public actions on record: 1
This page keeps two things apart for Indonesia: what each platform's own published rules say, and what regulators, courts and police in Indonesia have publicly done. A platform's list is its own policy and a government order is the government's, so a country can be on one and not the other.
The status labels are the same as in the main table. Restricted means the platform's own list blocks trading from Indonesia. Close-only means existing users there can close positions but can't open new ones. Some regions means only named regions are restricted. Separate product means residents use a different, separately regulated product, as US residents do with the Polymarket US app. Not listed means the platform's published list doesn't name Indonesia; that is not the same as permitted, and a regulator may still block the site.
Polymarket publishes two official lists that don't fully match: its Help Center page (updated August 14, 2026) and its developer docs (undated). We follow the dated Help Center list and say where the developer docs differ. Kalshi statuses follow its Member Agreement as fetched on September 24, 2026; the agreement itself is undated.
Each action shows the authority as it names itself, what it did, the platform it concerns and the date: the date of the action where it was published, otherwise the date it was first reported. Every entry is marked Official, Platform document or Secondary report. Where only secondary reporting exists, we say ‘reported by’ and name the outlet; where official sources conflict, we report both.
‘No public action found’ means our searches found none, not that none exists. Nothing on this page says whether trading is legal for you: for that, check the platforms' current terms and the law in Indonesia.
Polymarket's Help Center page on geographic restrictions, updated August 14, 2026, lists 39 blocked countries and a separate close-only group; Indonesia is on neither. Its undated developer geoblock documentation doesn't name Indonesia in any tier either, so the two Polymarket lists agree. Under this site's labels Indonesia is Not listed for Polymarket. That describes Polymarket's own policy only: the Help Center update of August 14, 2026 came almost three months after Komdigi's block and still omits Indonesia, and Polymarket gave no public response in the coverage we fetched. ‘Not listed’ does not mean trading from Indonesia is permitted.
In practice the restriction is the government's. Komdigi's action is a network-level access block of the kind it applies to sites it classifies as online gambling; Coinvestasi reported on May 25, 2026 that the site was unreachable on Indonesian Wi-Fi and mobile networks and returned an error. Whether polymarket.com was entered in the Trust Positif blocklist is not confirmed, no app-store removal has been reported, and we found no report of the block being lifted as of September 26, 2026. Searches such as ‘polymarket apk’ and ‘polymarket app download’ are common in Indonesia; we found no Indonesian order about the apps, and their app-store status in Indonesia is not documented.
Indonesia is not on the list of 55 Restricted Jurisdictions in Section VI of Kalshi's Member Agreement (undated; fetched September 24, 2026), and it wasn't on the lists in Kalshi's Exchange Notices of October 23 and November 4, 2025. Under this site's labels Indonesia is Not listed for Kalshi. Kalshi's help center (updated March 20, 2026) says trading from outside the United States is subject to the Member Agreement. CoinDesk reported on May 25, 2026 that Komdigi's statement ‘did not name Kalshi’ but said the Ministry would restrict similar services; we found no Indonesian action naming Kalshi and no Kalshi notice naming Indonesia as of September 26, 2026. ‘Not listed’ describes Kalshi's contract only and says nothing about Indonesian law.
The body that acted is the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital, Komdigi), through its Directorate General of Digital Space Supervision (Direktorat Jenderal Pengawasan Ruang Digital), Director General Alexander Sabar. Its press release of May 22, 2026, headlined ‘Kemkomdigi Blokir Polymarket, Judi Online Berkedok Prediction Market’, says that any platform letting users wager money on uncertain outcomes is online gambling (judi online) under the laws in force in Indonesia, regardless of ‘prediction market’ branding or the use of blockchain and crypto-assets. The release cites no statute by number, says the Ministry cut access (pemutusan akses) to www.polymarket.com and was tracing affiliated social-media accounts for further restrictions, and urges the public not to access or take part in such speculation because of the risk of financial loss and of breaking Indonesian law. It is an official source; the state news agency ANTARA carried it the same day, and CoinDesk (May 25, 2026) and the South China Morning Post (May 26, 2026) reported it in English. It appears as Blocking order in the timeline below.
The release does not mention any specific market; the connection to the Prabowo market is made by the press. On May 21, 2026, Polymarket's X account posted a market titled ‘Prabowo Subianto out as President of Indonesia by...?’. According to crypto.news (May 23, 2026), Coinvestasi (May 25, 2026) and indonesiaonline.co.id (May 24, 2026), it showed about 1–2% for an exit by May 31, 11% by June 30 and 15–19% by December 31, 2026, with roughly US$44,000–46,000 in volume within hours; the figures differ between outlets because of different snapshot times. The block was announced the next day. ANTARA's rendering of the release cites Singapore, Brazil and India as precedents and says Taiwan, Thailand, China and Japan have applied restrictions; that is the Indonesian government's characterisation of other countries, not evidence about them.
Indonesia's general gambling law, as summarised by the legal portal Hukumonline on June 10, 2025 (secondary; not about either platform): the new Criminal Code (Law No. 1 of 2023, in force since January 2, 2026) punishes organisers under Article 426 with up to 9 years' imprisonment or a category VI fine (Rp 2 billion) and players under Article 427 with up to 3 years or a category III fine (Rp 50 million); before 2026 the old Code's Articles 303 and 303 bis applied, with up to 4 years for players. The Electronic Information and Transactions Law (Law No. 11 of 2008 as amended by Law No. 1 of 2024) prohibits distributing gambling content in Article 27(2), punishable under Article 45(3) by up to 10 years and/or Rp 10 billion. The block is an administrative order aimed at the platform's website: no court was involved, and we found no court challenge by Polymarket, no fine and no statement from the Financial Services Authority (OJK), Bank Indonesia or the commodities regulator Bappebti naming either platform.
The entries below are rendered from the same dated data as the main country table, newest first. Each row shows the date, the authority as it names itself, the type of action, the platform it concerns and the source with its type.
| Date | Authority | Action | Platform | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | Komdigi (Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs) | Blocking order | Polymarket | Source Official Checked 2026-09-24 Also reported by: Secondary report · Secondary report · Secondary report · Secondary report · Official |
Public regulator, court and police actions concerning Polymarket and Kalshi in Indonesia, as of 2026-09-24. Not legal advice.
This section reports what the law and the authorities in Indonesia have said about people who take part in these markets, and any enforcement against users that has been made public. It describes; it doesn't advise.
Komdigi's release of May 22, 2026 speaks to users directly: it urges the public not to access or take part in crypto-based speculation of this kind, citing the risk of financial loss and of ‘violation of Indonesian law’, but gives no penalty figures. The general rule for participants is Article 427 of the new Criminal Code, under which a person who ‘uses the opportunity to gamble’ faces up to 3 years' imprisonment or a fine of up to Rp 50 million (Hukumonline, June 10, 2025). We found no prosecution of a Polymarket or Kalshi user in Indonesia, and no statement from the tax office (DJP) on prediction-market winnings.
Indonesia also targets the money flows behind online gambling. In a press release of July 15, 2026, Komdigi said that Law No. 4 of 2026 on financial-sector development (P2SK) is the basis for coordinated account-blocking with the Financial Services Authority (OJK), Bank Indonesia and the banks; it reported about 3.7 million gambling sites and items of content blocked between October 20, 2024 and July 12, 2026, about 38,000 suspected gambling-linked accounts reported and about 32,500 closed, and that by May 2026 banks had rejected 2.8 million business relationships and closed 51,200 accounts of suspected online-gambling users. None of those statements says whether Polymarket-linked accounts are included, and we found no bank, payment-system or exchange policy naming either platform.
The Indonesian government frames the Polymarket block as part of its wider campaign against online gambling (judi online, or ‘judol’), under which millions of sites have been blocked since October 2024 (Komdigi, July 15, 2026). In Indonesian search data, ‘polymarket prabowo’ is the second most common Polymarket query after ‘polymarket adalah’ (what is Polymarket), which matches the market that preceded the block. We found no statement from the election bodies KPU or Bawaslu and no sponsorship or partner product involving either platform in Indonesia.
PolyKal is a read-only research site, and it does not restrict access by country, including from Indonesia. Its public pages, including prices on both platforms, order-book depth, after-fee cost comparisons, the fee calculator, and large-trade and whale data, need no account. You don't need a VPN to use them.
Viewing public market data is not trading. PolyKal doesn't place orders, hold funds or give access to trading on either platform, and a restriction on Polymarket or Kalshi in Indonesia still applies to trading there. Polymarket's help center says that using a VPN to get around its restrictions violates its Terms of Use, and Kalshi's Member Agreement excludes people in its restricted jurisdictions; getting around a block can also break local law. PolyKal doesn't help anyone get around them.
Start with the compare page, the fee calculator or large trades, or read how Polymarket works and how Kalshi works.
Indonesia is one of 27 countries, plus the United States, that PolyKal tracks. The full availability table shows every country's status under each platform's rules and its regulator actions side by side, with the same dates and sources as this page, and its change log lists every edit we make.
Every entry is re-checked at least once a quarter, and sooner when a platform or regulator announces a change. The next scheduled full re-check is shown in the sidebar.
We found no Indonesian court ruling on it, and we don't decide it for you. What the record shows: on May 22, 2026, Komdigi classified Polymarket as online gambling under Indonesian law, cut access to www.polymarket.com and urged the public not to take part; the new Criminal Code's Article 427 punishes gambling by players with up to 3 years' imprisonment or a fine of up to Rp 50 million. Polymarket's own lists don't name Indonesia, which is a fact about its rules, not about the law. Check the current law and the platform's current terms before doing anything.
That is the government's stated position, though we found no court decision on it. Komdigi's release of May 22, 2026 says a platform that lets users wager money on uncertain outcomes is online gambling under Indonesian law whatever it calls itself and whether or not it uses blockchain or crypto-assets. Polymarket did not respond publicly in the coverage we fetched, and we found no court proceeding in which the classification has been tested.
The official reason, in Komdigi's release of May 22, 2026, is that Polymarket is ‘online gambling disguised as a prediction market’; the release names no specific market. Press reports (crypto.news, Coinvestasi, SCMP) point to the market ‘Prabowo Subianto out as President of Indonesia by...?’, posted by Polymarket on X on May 21, 2026, with about US$44,000–46,000 traded within hours, as the trigger. Both are on the record; the link between them is the press's, not the Ministry's.
Kalshi's Member Agreement (fetched September 24, 2026) doesn't list Indonesia as a restricted jurisdiction, and its help center says international trading is subject to that agreement. That is Kalshi's contract, not a statement about Indonesian law: Komdigi's position that wagering on uncertain outcomes is online gambling doesn't depend on the platform, and CoinDesk reported on May 25, 2026 that the Ministry said it would restrict similar services, although it did not name Kalshi and we found no Indonesian action against Kalshi.
Yes, on PolyKal. Its pages load from Indonesia without an account and show prices, order-book depth and after-fee comparisons for both platforms, including Polymarket's Indonesia markets. Viewing data is not trading: PolyKal doesn't place orders or hold funds, and Komdigi's block on polymarket.com and the legal positions described on this page still apply to trading.
No. Polymarket's help center says that using a VPN to get around its restrictions violates its Terms of Use, and Kalshi's Member Agreement excludes people in its restricted jurisdictions. Getting around a block can also break local law. You don't need a VPN to research these markets: PolyKal's prices, order books and fee calculator don't require one.
We re-check every country page at least once a quarter, and sooner when a platform or regulator announces a change; each rule and action on the page shows its own date and source. If you spot something out of date for Indonesia, email [email protected] with a link to the new rule or order.
Every statement on this page rests on the sources below. Platform rules were checked against Polymarket's and Kalshi's own pages on September 24, 2026; regulator, court and police actions were checked against the sources listed on September 24–26, 2026. Each source is marked as official, a platform document or a secondary report. Where only secondary reporting was available, we cite it and say so; where official sources conflict, we report both. We re-verify this page quarterly.
Komdigi press release: Kemkomdigi Blokir Polymarket, Judi Online Berkedok Prediction Market, May 22, 2026. Official. Same release on komdigi.go.id, May 22, 2026. Official. ANTARA: Kemkomdigi blocks Polymarket, online gambling disguised as a prediction market, May 22, 2026. Secondary (state news agency).
CoinDesk: Indonesia blocks Polymarket, calling prediction market online gambling in disguise, May 25, 2026. Secondary. South China Morning Post: Indonesia bans Polymarket following bets on Prabowo presidency end date, May 26, 2026. Secondary. crypto.news: Polymarket blocked in Indonesia as Prabowo exit bets spark heat, May 23, 2026. Secondary. Coinvestasi: Komdigi blocks Polymarket after the Prabowo bet uproar, May 25, 2026. Secondary. indonesiaonline.co.id: Prabowo exit bets on Polymarket; government says it counts as online gambling, May 24, 2026. Secondary.
Komdigi (Directorate General of Digital Space Supervision) press release: blocking sites is no longer enough, cutting online-gambling money flows, July 15, 2026. Official. Hukumonline Klinik: the legal net for online gambling (KUHP Articles 426–427, ITE Law Articles 27(2) and 45(3)), June 10, 2025. Secondary (legal portal; not about either platform).
Platform documents (all countries): Polymarket Help Center: Geographic restrictions (updated August 14, 2026), Polymarket developer docs: Geoblock (undated), Kalshi Member Agreement (undated; fetched September 24, 2026) and Kalshi Help Center: trading from outside the US (updated March 20, 2026).
PolyKal is an independent research tool. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Polymarket or Kalshi. We report each platform's published rules and public regulator, court and police actions in Indonesia; we don't say whether trading is legal for you, and we don't help anyone get around a platform's restrictions. Last reviewed September 26, 2026. Not legal or financial advice.
Know of a newer rule, order or court decision for Indonesia? Email [email protected] with a link to it.
Kalshi's taker fee is 0.07 × contracts × price × (1 − price), times the series multiplier (1 by default) and rounded up to the next cent, so it peaks at 1.75¢ per contract at a 50¢ price. Resting (maker) orders are free on standard series and pay a fee only on the series Kalshi lists with maker fees.
Country-by-country rules, regulator actions and sources for Polymarket and Kalshi.
This is not legal advice, and we don't say whether trading is legal for you in Indonesia. We report what each platform's published rules say about Indonesia and the public regulator, court and police actions we could source, each with a date. Those rules change fast, so check the platform's current terms and the law in Indonesia before doing anything. ‘Not listed’ only means a platform's own list doesn't name Indonesia; it doesn't mean trading there is permitted.
Status under each platform's own published rules, and the most recent public action we could source, as of 2026-09-24.
Last public action: 2026-05-22 · Komdigi (Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs) · Blocking order (Polymarket)
Source: Official
Dated public actions on record: 1
This page keeps two things apart for Indonesia: what each platform's own published rules say, and what regulators, courts and police in Indonesia have publicly done. A platform's list is its own policy and a government order is the government's, so a country can be on one and not the other.
The status labels are the same as in the main table. Restricted means the platform's own list blocks trading from Indonesia. Close-only means existing users there can close positions but can't open new ones. Some regions means only named regions are restricted. Separate product means residents use a different, separately regulated product, as US residents do with the Polymarket US app. Not listed means the platform's published list doesn't name Indonesia; that is not the same as permitted, and a regulator may still block the site.
Polymarket publishes two official lists that don't fully match: its Help Center page (updated August 14, 2026) and its developer docs (undated). We follow the dated Help Center list and say where the developer docs differ. Kalshi statuses follow its Member Agreement as fetched on September 24, 2026; the agreement itself is undated.
Each action shows the authority as it names itself, what it did, the platform it concerns and the date: the date of the action where it was published, otherwise the date it was first reported. Every entry is marked Official, Platform document or Secondary report. Where only secondary reporting exists, we say ‘reported by’ and name the outlet; where official sources conflict, we report both.
‘No public action found’ means our searches found none, not that none exists. Nothing on this page says whether trading is legal for you: for that, check the platforms' current terms and the law in Indonesia.
Polymarket's Help Center page on geographic restrictions, updated August 14, 2026, lists 39 blocked countries and a separate close-only group; Indonesia is on neither. Its undated developer geoblock documentation doesn't name Indonesia in any tier either, so the two Polymarket lists agree. Under this site's labels Indonesia is Not listed for Polymarket. That describes Polymarket's own policy only: the Help Center update of August 14, 2026 came almost three months after Komdigi's block and still omits Indonesia, and Polymarket gave no public response in the coverage we fetched. ‘Not listed’ does not mean trading from Indonesia is permitted.
In practice the restriction is the government's. Komdigi's action is a network-level access block of the kind it applies to sites it classifies as online gambling; Coinvestasi reported on May 25, 2026 that the site was unreachable on Indonesian Wi-Fi and mobile networks and returned an error. Whether polymarket.com was entered in the Trust Positif blocklist is not confirmed, no app-store removal has been reported, and we found no report of the block being lifted as of September 26, 2026. Searches such as ‘polymarket apk’ and ‘polymarket app download’ are common in Indonesia; we found no Indonesian order about the apps, and their app-store status in Indonesia is not documented.
Indonesia is not on the list of 55 Restricted Jurisdictions in Section VI of Kalshi's Member Agreement (undated; fetched September 24, 2026), and it wasn't on the lists in Kalshi's Exchange Notices of October 23 and November 4, 2025. Under this site's labels Indonesia is Not listed for Kalshi. Kalshi's help center (updated March 20, 2026) says trading from outside the United States is subject to the Member Agreement. CoinDesk reported on May 25, 2026 that Komdigi's statement ‘did not name Kalshi’ but said the Ministry would restrict similar services; we found no Indonesian action naming Kalshi and no Kalshi notice naming Indonesia as of September 26, 2026. ‘Not listed’ describes Kalshi's contract only and says nothing about Indonesian law.
The body that acted is the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital, Komdigi), through its Directorate General of Digital Space Supervision (Direktorat Jenderal Pengawasan Ruang Digital), Director General Alexander Sabar. Its press release of May 22, 2026, headlined ‘Kemkomdigi Blokir Polymarket, Judi Online Berkedok Prediction Market’, says that any platform letting users wager money on uncertain outcomes is online gambling (judi online) under the laws in force in Indonesia, regardless of ‘prediction market’ branding or the use of blockchain and crypto-assets. The release cites no statute by number, says the Ministry cut access (pemutusan akses) to www.polymarket.com and was tracing affiliated social-media accounts for further restrictions, and urges the public not to access or take part in such speculation because of the risk of financial loss and of breaking Indonesian law. It is an official source; the state news agency ANTARA carried it the same day, and CoinDesk (May 25, 2026) and the South China Morning Post (May 26, 2026) reported it in English. It appears as Blocking order in the timeline below.
The release does not mention any specific market; the connection to the Prabowo market is made by the press. On May 21, 2026, Polymarket's X account posted a market titled ‘Prabowo Subianto out as President of Indonesia by...?’. According to crypto.news (May 23, 2026), Coinvestasi (May 25, 2026) and indonesiaonline.co.id (May 24, 2026), it showed about 1–2% for an exit by May 31, 11% by June 30 and 15–19% by December 31, 2026, with roughly US$44,000–46,000 in volume within hours; the figures differ between outlets because of different snapshot times. The block was announced the next day. ANTARA's rendering of the release cites Singapore, Brazil and India as precedents and says Taiwan, Thailand, China and Japan have applied restrictions; that is the Indonesian government's characterisation of other countries, not evidence about them.
Indonesia's general gambling law, as summarised by the legal portal Hukumonline on June 10, 2025 (secondary; not about either platform): the new Criminal Code (Law No. 1 of 2023, in force since January 2, 2026) punishes organisers under Article 426 with up to 9 years' imprisonment or a category VI fine (Rp 2 billion) and players under Article 427 with up to 3 years or a category III fine (Rp 50 million); before 2026 the old Code's Articles 303 and 303 bis applied, with up to 4 years for players. The Electronic Information and Transactions Law (Law No. 11 of 2008 as amended by Law No. 1 of 2024) prohibits distributing gambling content in Article 27(2), punishable under Article 45(3) by up to 10 years and/or Rp 10 billion. The block is an administrative order aimed at the platform's website: no court was involved, and we found no court challenge by Polymarket, no fine and no statement from the Financial Services Authority (OJK), Bank Indonesia or the commodities regulator Bappebti naming either platform.
The entries below are rendered from the same dated data as the main country table, newest first. Each row shows the date, the authority as it names itself, the type of action, the platform it concerns and the source with its type.
Public regulator, court and police actions concerning Polymarket and Kalshi in Indonesia, as of 2026-09-24. Not legal advice.
This section reports what the law and the authorities in Indonesia have said about people who take part in these markets, and any enforcement against users that has been made public. It describes; it doesn't advise.
Komdigi's release of May 22, 2026 speaks to users directly: it urges the public not to access or take part in crypto-based speculation of this kind, citing the risk of financial loss and of ‘violation of Indonesian law’, but gives no penalty figures. The general rule for participants is Article 427 of the new Criminal Code, under which a person who ‘uses the opportunity to gamble’ faces up to 3 years' imprisonment or a fine of up to Rp 50 million (Hukumonline, June 10, 2025). We found no prosecution of a Polymarket or Kalshi user in Indonesia, and no statement from the tax office (DJP) on prediction-market winnings.
Indonesia also targets the money flows behind online gambling. In a press release of July 15, 2026, Komdigi said that Law No. 4 of 2026 on financial-sector development (P2SK) is the basis for coordinated account-blocking with the Financial Services Authority (OJK), Bank Indonesia and the banks; it reported about 3.7 million gambling sites and items of content blocked between October 20, 2024 and July 12, 2026, about 38,000 suspected gambling-linked accounts reported and about 32,500 closed, and that by May 2026 banks had rejected 2.8 million business relationships and closed 51,200 accounts of suspected online-gambling users. None of those statements says whether Polymarket-linked accounts are included, and we found no bank, payment-system or exchange policy naming either platform.
The Indonesian government frames the Polymarket block as part of its wider campaign against online gambling (judi online, or ‘judol’), under which millions of sites have been blocked since October 2024 (Komdigi, July 15, 2026). In Indonesian search data, ‘polymarket prabowo’ is the second most common Polymarket query after ‘polymarket adalah’ (what is Polymarket), which matches the market that preceded the block. We found no statement from the election bodies KPU or Bawaslu and no sponsorship or partner product involving either platform in Indonesia.
PolyKal is a read-only research site, and it does not restrict access by country, including from Indonesia. Its public pages, including prices on both platforms, order-book depth, after-fee cost comparisons, the fee calculator, and large-trade and whale data, need no account. You don't need a VPN to use them.
Viewing public market data is not trading. PolyKal doesn't place orders, hold funds or give access to trading on either platform, and a restriction on Polymarket or Kalshi in Indonesia still applies to trading there. Polymarket's help center says that using a VPN to get around its restrictions violates its Terms of Use, and Kalshi's Member Agreement excludes people in its restricted jurisdictions; getting around a block can also break local law. PolyKal doesn't help anyone get around them.
Start with the compare page, the fee calculator or large trades, or read how Polymarket works and how Kalshi works.
Indonesia is one of 27 countries, plus the United States, that PolyKal tracks. The full availability table shows every country's status under each platform's rules and its regulator actions side by side, with the same dates and sources as this page, and its change log lists every edit we make.
Every entry is re-checked at least once a quarter, and sooner when a platform or regulator announces a change. The next scheduled full re-check is shown in the sidebar.
We found no Indonesian court ruling on it, and we don't decide it for you. What the record shows: on May 22, 2026, Komdigi classified Polymarket as online gambling under Indonesian law, cut access to www.polymarket.com and urged the public not to take part; the new Criminal Code's Article 427 punishes gambling by players with up to 3 years' imprisonment or a fine of up to Rp 50 million. Polymarket's own lists don't name Indonesia, which is a fact about its rules, not about the law. Check the current law and the platform's current terms before doing anything.
That is the government's stated position, though we found no court decision on it. Komdigi's release of May 22, 2026 says a platform that lets users wager money on uncertain outcomes is online gambling under Indonesian law whatever it calls itself and whether or not it uses blockchain or crypto-assets. Polymarket did not respond publicly in the coverage we fetched, and we found no court proceeding in which the classification has been tested.
The official reason, in Komdigi's release of May 22, 2026, is that Polymarket is ‘online gambling disguised as a prediction market’; the release names no specific market. Press reports (crypto.news, Coinvestasi, SCMP) point to the market ‘Prabowo Subianto out as President of Indonesia by...?’, posted by Polymarket on X on May 21, 2026, with about US$44,000–46,000 traded within hours, as the trigger. Both are on the record; the link between them is the press's, not the Ministry's.
Kalshi's Member Agreement (fetched September 24, 2026) doesn't list Indonesia as a restricted jurisdiction, and its help center says international trading is subject to that agreement. That is Kalshi's contract, not a statement about Indonesian law: Komdigi's position that wagering on uncertain outcomes is online gambling doesn't depend on the platform, and CoinDesk reported on May 25, 2026 that the Ministry said it would restrict similar services, although it did not name Kalshi and we found no Indonesian action against Kalshi.
Yes, on PolyKal. Its pages load from Indonesia without an account and show prices, order-book depth and after-fee comparisons for both platforms, including Polymarket's Indonesia markets. Viewing data is not trading: PolyKal doesn't place orders or hold funds, and Komdigi's block on polymarket.com and the legal positions described on this page still apply to trading.
No. Polymarket's help center says that using a VPN to get around its restrictions violates its Terms of Use, and Kalshi's Member Agreement excludes people in its restricted jurisdictions. Getting around a block can also break local law. You don't need a VPN to research these markets: PolyKal's prices, order books and fee calculator don't require one.
We re-check every country page at least once a quarter, and sooner when a platform or regulator announces a change; each rule and action on the page shows its own date and source. If you spot something out of date for Indonesia, email [email protected] with a link to the new rule or order.
Every statement on this page rests on the sources below. Platform rules were checked against Polymarket's and Kalshi's own pages on September 24, 2026; regulator, court and police actions were checked against the sources listed on September 24–26, 2026. Each source is marked as official, a platform document or a secondary report. Where only secondary reporting was available, we cite it and say so; where official sources conflict, we report both. We re-verify this page quarterly.
Komdigi press release: Kemkomdigi Blokir Polymarket, Judi Online Berkedok Prediction Market, May 22, 2026. Official. Same release on komdigi.go.id, May 22, 2026. Official. ANTARA: Kemkomdigi blocks Polymarket, online gambling disguised as a prediction market, May 22, 2026. Secondary (state news agency).
CoinDesk: Indonesia blocks Polymarket, calling prediction market online gambling in disguise, May 25, 2026. Secondary. South China Morning Post: Indonesia bans Polymarket following bets on Prabowo presidency end date, May 26, 2026. Secondary. crypto.news: Polymarket blocked in Indonesia as Prabowo exit bets spark heat, May 23, 2026. Secondary. Coinvestasi: Komdigi blocks Polymarket after the Prabowo bet uproar, May 25, 2026. Secondary. indonesiaonline.co.id: Prabowo exit bets on Polymarket; government says it counts as online gambling, May 24, 2026. Secondary.
Komdigi (Directorate General of Digital Space Supervision) press release: blocking sites is no longer enough, cutting online-gambling money flows, July 15, 2026. Official. Hukumonline Klinik: the legal net for online gambling (KUHP Articles 426–427, ITE Law Articles 27(2) and 45(3)), June 10, 2025. Secondary (legal portal; not about either platform).
Platform documents (all countries): Polymarket Help Center: Geographic restrictions (updated August 14, 2026), Polymarket developer docs: Geoblock (undated), Kalshi Member Agreement (undated; fetched September 24, 2026) and Kalshi Help Center: trading from outside the US (updated March 20, 2026).
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