<![CDATA[This study examines the implementation of Law Number 1 of 2024t he second amendment to Indonesia’s Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law in countering online gambling in the city of Bukittinggi, and interprets that enforcement through the lens of siyāsah tanfīdhiyyah, the Islamic jurisprudence of executive governance. Although online gambling has become one of Indonesia’s most pressing forms of cybercrime, existing scholarship has largely approached ITE enforcement from a positive-law and normative standpoint, leaving a gap in empirical, locally grounded analysis that simultaneously engages an Islamic-governance framework. Adopting a qualitative socio-legal (empirical-juridical) approach and an intrinsic case-study design centred on the Bukittinggi City Police (Polresta Bukittinggi), data were gathered through semi-structured interviews, non-participant observation, and documentation including the case file of a prosecuted online-gambling offender and analysed through source and method triangulation. The findings show that enforcement in Bukittinggi has reached a serious operational stage and demonstrates procedural fidelity to Articles 27(2) and 45(3) of the ITE Law, yet remains constrained by the absence of an autonomous cyber unit, limited digital-forensic capacity, slow inter-agency coordination, the futility of temporary site-blocking, and weak preventive literacy. Read through siyāsah tanfīdhiyyah, this enforcement expresses tanfīdh sharʿī and an orientation toward maṣlaḥah and ḥimāyat al-ummah, though the persistent role distance between the ideal and the actual demands a more progressive ijtihād tanfīdhī. The article contributes an integrative model linking empirical cyber-enforcement analysis with Islamic executive-governance theory]]>
