BSTV TV Director Bondowoso Spreads TNI-Polri Hoax Via YouTube Actual TV

JAKARTA - The arrest of the director of a private TV turned out to be related to the spread of fake news on the YouTube account 'Actual TV'. The content of the YouTube channel has the potential to cause trouble.

"This is different from television, there is content that he creates on the YouTube platform on his YouTube channel called Aktual TV. This is not registered with the press council," said Head of Public Relations of the Metro Jaya Police Kombes Yusri Yunus to reporters, Friday, October 15.

The police arrested the TV director named Arief Zainurrohman alias AZ. He is the head of BSTV Bondowoso.

In addition, there were two other people who were arrested with the initials M and AF. They are account managers to voice actors in the content on the account.

"The second suspect is M, this is the channel manager who does the editing and uploading and content creators," said Yusri.

"The third is AF, he is a voice actor or narrator in the content on the Aktual TV YouTube account," he continued.

According to the police, they not only spread hoax content on YouTube but also uploaded it to various other social media. Thus, it has the potential to cause a commotion.

"Posting, spreading through social media on the YouTube channel, which causes content to spread to all platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and so on," said Yusri.

For their actions, the suspects were charged with Article 14 paragraph 1 paragraph 2 of the ITE Law, Number 19 of 2016 junto Article 28 of the Law on Criminal Law.