Riau Police Arrest Man Spreading Hoaxes At The Constitutional Court For Disqualification Of Prabowo-Gibran, Suara Hakim Edited

PeKANBARU - Riau Police arrested a man from Rokan Hilir Regency with the initials MA (32) on suspicion of manipulating the judge's voice reading the results of the Constitutional Court (MK) trial through his Tiktok account @arif92_8.

The Director of Special Criminal Investigation at the Riau Police, Kombes Nasriadi, explained that the suspect was arrested based on the results of the Police Criminal Investigation Unit. Patrol found Tiktok's account on behalf of Muhammad Arif posting a video of the Constitutional Court's decision.

"It is known that the voice is not the original voice of the Constitutional Court Judge. The suspect added several 'captions' and reposted the video after it was edited," Nasriadi said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, April 17.

Cyber Bareskrim Polri then saw the suspect's upload and coordinated with the Riau Police Ditreskrimsus Cyber for follow-up. Furthermore, the Riau Police Cyber Team conducted an investigation, examined expert witnesses and found out that the perpetrators were domiciled in the Rohil Regency area.

"Based on the results of the investigation and deepening of evidence equipped with expert witness testimony, the perpetrator who owns the Tiktok account @arif92_8 is known to be in Rohil Regency," he said.

After being found, the suspect was then taken to the Riau Police for safekeeping and questioned. Nasriadi explained the illegal act committed by the suspect, namely on suspicion of changing the original voice of the Constitutional Court judge.

"The suspect is the owner of the Tiktok Account @arif92_8 on behalf of Muhammad Arif, from his confession the video was obtained from someone else's tiktok," said Nasriadi.

"When the suspect re-uploaded the video, the Supreme Court also added the caption 'Congratulations to the supporters of 02 dancing'," he added.

The making of the suspect is clear that Nasriadi violated Article 35 in conjunction with Article 51 paragraph (1) of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 1 of 2024 concerning the Second Amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions with a maximum imprisonment of 12 years and a maximum fine of IDR 12 billion.

In addition to the suspect, the police also secured the black Oppo A5s mobile phone. Currently, his party is completing the administration of investigations and investigations.

The Head of Sub-Directorate for Cyber, Riau Police, Kompol Fajri, said that the suspect himself filled his voice on his TikTok account by changing the voice of the judge of the Constitutional Court.

"The original voice of the Constitutional Court judge is at 1.42.39 minutes," said Fajri.