Filter Before Sharing, Indonesian National Police Arrest 13 Persons Spreading Hoaxes in a Week
CIDISS. Police of the Republic of Indonesia acted swiftly through the Directorate of Criminal Crimes Bareskrim Police Headquarters immediately arrested 13 perpetrators of disseminating hoax issues on social media within the past week. They have been named as suspects because they have been proven to deliberately spread hoax content related to the Lion Air plane crash and the issue of kidnapping children is rife, which occurred a few days ago.
They are eleven suspects who spread the kidnapping news hoaks namely D (41), EW (31), RA (33), JHS (31), DNL (20), N (23), O (30), TK (34) , Nur (22), Us (28) and VGC. While the two suspects who spread the news hoaxed the fall of Lion Air’s aircraft, An (30) and Su (33).
The Head of Public Relations Division of the Indonesian Police Headquarters Inspector General Setyo Wasisto appealed to the public so that they would not carelessly carry out and disseminate false or hoax information received on social media. According to him, not only hoax makers could be charged, but also spreaders. “In the law, it is said who made, spread the hoax. If they (the perpetrators) say only fun or care for friends, the Law has regulated it,” Setyo said on Tuesday, November 6, 2018.
The two-star police general said, from the results of the interim investigation, it was discovered that the suspects’ motivation in spreading false information about child abduction was to make the public more vigilant. The National Police believes that the actions of the perpetrators do not have certain political goals in the case of the spread of child abduction hoaxes. “So far the perpetrators’ posts have nothing to do with politics. This is purely to cause unrest in the community about kidnapping children,” he said.
The suspects were charged with Article 51 juncto Article 35 of Law Number 19 Year 2016 concerning Amendments to Law Number 11 Year 2008 concerning ITE and or Article 15 of Law Number 1 Year 1946 concerning Criminal Law Regulations with a maximum sentence of 12 years and a maximum fine of Rp. 12 billion.
By: Rikky, S *)
