Reprimanded By The Ministry Of Health Staff, Jerome Polin Removes Uploads In Doctor's Work And Apologizes

Jerome Polin((TikTok/Jerome Polin)

The commotion occurred after Jerome Polin and two students from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (FK UI) Ugiadam Farhan Firmansyah and Ekida Firmansyah uploaded a video dancing wearing a white suit for doctors and stethoscope with the caption, "Sorry, we have tried our best".

Head of the Public Communication and Service Bureau (Karokomyanlik) of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Siti Nadia Tarmizi opened her voice about the content of the influence creator Jerome Polin and two medical students who went viral on social media for the viral short video.

"Of course we have a limit in using social media, maybe this sentence for some people is not a problem, but for some people of course this can be sensitive," said Siti as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, March 2.

The information they put on the upload is considered by the public to be inappropriate because it can offend a number of parties.

This upload certainly reaped thousands of comments, some people assume that the sentence is usually said by doctors to the patient's family when they do not manage to save the patient's life.

Siti said, if the purpose of the content is not to motivate doctors, but to offend certain parties, then this step is not wise.

"If there is no clear purpose in creating such content, then this is an inappropriate and sensitive step, it should not be done," he said.

According to Siti, coaching from educational institutions on the ways and ethics of using social media is very necessary to avoid things like this.

Jerome Polin and two prospective twin doctors as well as influencers who are still studying at FK UI have deleted the content and apologized to the public.

Through his Twitter account, Jerome wrote a tweet apologizing to the public and several parties who were offended by the video content.

"Hello, regarding the recent problems, I apologize if anything is not pleasing / offensive," Jerome wrote, via his Twitter account @JeromePolin, Sunday, February 26.

The apology tweet was then viewed by more than five million Twitter users, with more than 30 thousand likes as of Wednesday, March 1.

"Thank you for all the constructive criticisms and suggestions. I will make it an evaluation material for the better, wiser, and careful in the future," added Jerome.