The Police Will Act On Spreading Provocative Content on Social Media

The Police Will Act On Spreading Provocative Content on Social Media

The ranks of the Cybercrime Unit of the Special Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the South Sulawesi Regional Police promised to conduct surveillance and deepening related to the provocative content of chaotic Papua and Sulawesi on social media, because Provocateurs on social media will be charged with crime.

South Sulawesi Police Public Relations Head, Commissioner Pol Ibrahim Tompo said, it continues to conduct Cyber ​​patrols on social media to anticipate individuals who try to provoke or even spread hoax or hoax news related to events that had occurred in Papua, some time ago.

"We will investigate and follow up on the video and even other posts circulating about the people of Sulawesi and Papua. And if the content is provocative, it will be criminalized," Ibrahim said, Saturday, February 29, 2020.

Later, social media was enlivened by a number of posts or uploads of content allegedly containing provocations related to the incident of persecution that befell a truck driver, named Yus Yunus, 25, a resident of Polman, Sulbar, who died in Dogiyai, Nabire, Papua, Sunday, February 23, 2020 , then.

He died after being entranced by the masses for a moment when he asked for protection from the police. The persecution of Yunus was carried out by a Dogiyai resident, Nabire Papua, because he was accused of crashing a motorcyclist and also crashing a pig to death.

As a result of these events, made the citizens of Polman and especially Sulawesi provoked emotion with the vigilantism of the Dogiyai residents themselves. This event was later exploited by a number of elements by spreading content and even provocation videos.

The current viral video is the commotion that occurred in the Papua dormitory, on Jalan Lanto Daeng Pasewang, Makassar City, in 2019 ago. The South Sulawesi Regional Police considered that revitalizing the video of the commotion was a form of provocation.

"Indeed, in the ITE Law, structured with conditions can anticipate the emergence of Kamtibmas disruptions like that. We will deepen this content posting," said Ibrahim Tompo.