JAKARTA - A video showing the collapsed road is circulating and widely spread on social media. It looks like the road is only halfway due to the subsidence of the ground. The narrative is written, the incident occurred on the Mount Bromo tourist route.
Really?
Don't just believe and be swallowed by the information.
In fact, the road collapse incident did not occur on the Mount Bromo tourist route. The incident occurred outside Probolinggo Regency.
Quoted from the official Probolinggo website, until Friday, November 19, the Mount Bromo tourist route through the entrance to Probolinggo Regency is still safe and there are no collapsed roads. So that it is ensured that the drivers who want to pass are still safe.
The Head of the Probolinggo Regency Communication, Information, Statistics and Encryption Service (Diskominfo) Yulius Christian confirmed that the information was hoax/disinformation.
"We have checked and confirmed that the news of the collapse of the road on the Mount Bromo tourist route is hoax / disinformation. The Mount Bromo tourist route through Probolinggo Regency is still safe and there are no collapsed roads," he said.
Yulius ensured that the collapsed road was not a route in Probolinggo Regency.
"Let's be wise in social media. People don't worry and panic with the circulation of the video. This is not happening in Probolinggo Regency," he continued.
"I urge the public not to easily believe in information whose sources cannot be accounted for and this is troubling to the people around Mount Bromo," he concluded.
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