Retweeting Hoax News Of Anies's New Luxury House, Ferdinand Hutahaean May Be Subjected To ITE Law

JAKARTA - Jakarta Citizen Collaboration Activist Andi Harianto Sinulingga thinks the actions of social media activist Ferdinand Hutahaean can be categorized as disseminating fake news.

This was triggered by Ferdinand's thumb commenting and retweeting the news hoax Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan got a luxury house from a reclamation developer.

"Retweeting the fake news was actually Ferdinand deliberately disseminated the news, he should have been subject to Article 27 paragraph (3) of the ITE Law," said Andi Sinulingga, Monday, May 24.

Ferdinand also denied that if he disseminated the news, he made excuses only to comment on netizen tweets out of curiosity about the information.

"Although he wrote as if he did not believe, but in fact, he has disseminated the news of the slander," said Andi.

The conclusion, said the Golkar politician, can be seen from the background of Ferdinand who has seemed to hate Anies Baswedan. Sometimes even personal attacks and leads to sentiments related to SARA.

"But it seems that the person is still untouched by the snare of the law," explained Andi Sinulingga.

It is known, Ferdinand Hutahaean denied that his tweet was intended to accuse Anies. He claimed the comments on the post were based on curiosity.

"Regarding the many information circulating on social media about that he said someone received a luxury home gift from the developer, I was surprised and curious about the truth of the information. I then commented on some tweets from netizens that I was basically shocked," he said Sunday, May 23.

Earlier, Ferdinand tweeted back about the false information and commented. Even comments submitted tend to justify the information received.

In the re-tweet, Ferdinand wrote "Wahhhhh is that true? Dangerous if it's so..!!" he wrote.

Meanwhile, the Vice Chairman of the DPRD DKI Jakarta M. Taufik joined the talk. According to this Gerindra Party Politician, it is impossible for Anies Baswedan to receive a house let alone a luxury house. According to him, the house in the picture is not Anies's taste.

"The picture is a picture on social media, right, people create the pictures that mean they who do not understand, do not know Mr. Anies, we see  Mr. Anies' house is antique, under the ground, topped with gazebo, and the house is underneath. So if we talk in the gazebo, we don't know there's a house underneath. It's parallel to the road," Taufik told reporters in Jakarta, Sunday, May 23.