Roy Suryo Tuding That There Are Parties Who Are Trying To Defame Him About Menag Yaqut's Statement

Roy Suryo (Capture Twitter @KRMTRoySuryo2)

JAKARTA - Former Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora) Roy Suryo spoke up after being accused of twisting a statement from the Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas. There was no statement from Roy's tweet when this case was excited which stated that the Minister of Religion compared the sound of the call to prayer with the barking of dogs.

"There are those who want to try to slander as if I "twisted" by "Editing / Cutting the Video" of this Viral Statement," said Roy via a tweet on his Twitter account, @KRMTRoySuryo2 reported Friday, February 25.

He explained, in the 34-second video uploaded on Thursday, February 24 yesterday, the substance of the statement by the Minister of Religion Yaqut was the same. There are no edits from the Menag statement.

"He-3x, please note: CUT in-Front & End is NOT EDITING (except In-Between / There is INSERT / DUB). This is the Whole Video + Caption. Please CHECK, word for word, the point is the SAME. AMBYAR," said Roy.

Muannas Alaidid, Executive Director of the Legal Mafia Eradication Committee (KPMH), previously strongly accused the former Democrat politician of comparing the call to prayer to the sound of dogs barking.

"Obviously the one who compared the call to prayer and the dog's voice was Si Roy Suryo, not Minister of Religion Gus @YaqutCQoumas," said Muannas via a tweet on his Twitter account, @muannas_Alaidid quoted by VOI, Thursday, February 24.

In some of his tweets, Roy Suryo uploaded a video clip of Minister of Religion Yaqut with a duration of 34 seconds. In the video, the Minister of Religion's explanation is not shown in its entirety.

"The simplest thing is, if we live in a complex, for example. Left, right, front and back all keep dogs. For example, barking at the same time, are we disturbed or not? What does this mean? we have to arrange it so that it doesn't become a disturbance. Speakers in musalas are welcome to use, but please set them so that they are not disturbed," reads a snippet of the Minister of Religion's statement in the video uploaded by Roy Suryo on Twitter @KRMTRoySuryo2.

In the video description, Roy said that this video is authentic evidence, 100 percent original without engineering or editing. He also emphasized in his tweet that the Minister of Religion clearly said the words 'dog' and 'barking.'

"At first I thought this was just a media "clickbait" (to get attention only). But when media like Detik, Tribun, Liputan 6 wrote the same thing, Is it appropriate for the voice of the Muadzin - who utters the Adhan, the call to prayer - to be compared to barking Dog? AMBYAR," said Roy.

According to Muannas, the duration of this video has been cut so that the message that Minister Yaqut wants to convey is blurry. In essence, Muannas emphasized, the Minister of Religion only wanted to adjust the loudspeakers.

"In that interview, even though you manipulated it by cutting the duration, it was clear that it only gave an example of the importance of regulating loudspeaker noise, it was proven that there was absolutely no mention of the call to prayer, thanks to the full video," said Muannas.