A Number Of Hoaxes In The Rizieq Shihab Case Center

JAKARTA - The shooting case for the six laskar specifically for Rizieq Shihab's guard is still a polemic. This is because the National Police and the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) each claim to have evidence. In fact, recently there have been hoaxes or hoaxes that have increasingly aggravated the situation.

At least there are some fake news spread on social media in this series of cases. One of them was a photo that seemed to show the corpse of a smiling army.

In fact, the man in the photo was not a member of the army who died. In fact, this man is still alive today.

Kapolres Kutai Kartanegara AKBP Irwan Masulin Ginting said that his party revealed the hoax. This is because the man in the photo is known to be a mosque marbot named Ahmad Mujahid (33).

In addition, based on the search for hoax photos, it is known that they were sent to the WhatsApp Lovers and Defenders of Ulama groups on December 7, 2020. Then on December 8, the photo went viral with the narrative of the FPI Laskar's body smiling when he died.

"The beginning of the photo spread when Mujahid exchanged WhatsApp messages to his colleagues, now we have appointed Mujahid as victim witnesses," said AKBP Irwan, Sunday, December 13.

Meanwhile, Ahmad Mujahid emphasized that he was greatly disadvantaged by the circulation of this false information.

"I feel aggrieved. I have also clarified through video that it is a hoax," he said.

With the hoax news that increasingly worsened the handling of the shooting case of the six laskar, Bareskrim Polri has ordered all of its ranks from Polda to Polsek to reveal the spread of fake news.

Head of Public Relations Division of the National Police, Inspector General Argo Yuwono, said that all forms of hoax news related to the shooting case will be immediately prosecuted.

"All hoaxes that are untrue at the Polda-Polda and Polri Headquarters will be processed," said Argo.

Currently, the Cyber Crime Directorate, Bareskrim has begun to map the spread of the hoax. Later, parties known to be involved will be arrested.

"We have instructed them to find out if there is a hoax, we will process the case (the shooting)," said Argo.

Argo said that the appearance of videos or photos linked to the shooting case only had a bad impact. This is because the community can be affected by the video.

"So that it doesn't frighten the public, so that the information itself is not wrong. We process everything," he said.

Not only fake news about the photos of the laskar's body, recently there have also been news photos containing the conversation of the Jakarta Police Chief, Inspector General Fadil Imran. The contents of the conversation were about the plan to kill Rizieq Shihab.

In the photo, it shows Inspector General Fadil Imran as if communicating with other members of the National Police and planning the execution of the six laskar.

Responding to this matter, the Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Yusri Yunus emphasized that the screenshot is not true. The police have also coordinated with the media which are said to have made the news.

"That there was a conversation between the Jakarta Police Chief in one WhatsApp, I explain that this is untrue news," said Yusri.

In fact, Yusri said that from the results of the coordination, the media listed on the photo felt that they did not create or display the news. So, he concluded that the circulating photos were the result of editing.

"The media also stated that they never reported anything like this and this is an edit. This is edited because the media has never released this news," he explained.

That way, the police will investigate the spread of this hoax. Investigators will investigate the mastermind who distributed the video.

"We will do all of this deepening to find out who the perpetrators are," he said

The two hoaxes were likely to be found in small numbers. For this reason, rather than spreading hoaxes that are increasingly clouding and only have a bad impact, it is better to share information about the case. This is because the Police have opened a hotline to receive all forms of information from the public.

Kabareskrim Polri, Komjen Listiyo Sigit Prabowo, said that opening the opportunity for the public to provide this information is one of the steps taken by the National Police so that the handling of this case remains transparent. So, in the future there will be no suspicious parties behind the investigation and investigation process.

"We also open up space and provide opportunities in this case from external colleagues to provide input in order to complement our investigations," he said.

For people who want to provide information, he said, they can directly meet investigators. Apart from that, external parties also convey all forms of information to investigators by telephone.

"We provide space for the public to provide information either in the form of direct information that can be given to investigators at the Criminal Investigation Unit, or through a hotline that we have prepared with the number 0812842988228," he explained.