Cawalkot Surabaya Eri Cahyadi Hoax Attacked By ASN Timses, Will Policing Spreaders

Candidates for mayor-deputy mayor of Surabaya Eri Cahyadi-Armuji (DOK. Istimewa)

SURABAYA - The winning team of candidates for mayor and deputy mayor of Surabaya, Eri Cahyadi-Armuji, will go through a legal process related to the hoax of the success team. There is a hoax that the timses Eri-Armuji is an ASN.

"Regarding these hoaxes, we will take legal action. Legal authorities need to curb hoaxes that divide the people for the sake of short-term political interests," said Eri-Armuji's spokesman, Aprizaldi, confirmed, Sunday, October 11.

Aprizaldi, who is familiarly called Aldi, suspects that the hoax news was carried out by supporters of one of the candidate pairs, out of fear of the candidate pair Eri-Armudji.

"It seems that someone is upset because of the large public support for Eri-Armudji, so they blindly spread ridiculous hoaxes related to the formation of timses from ASN circles," he said.

According to Aldi, hoaxes are bad political education for the public. Hoax he continued was spread by parties that justify any means to win.

"Winning must be, but not spreading hoaxes. And usually those who spread hoaxes are those who are afraid, not creative and lazy to think," he explained.

Despite being attacked by hoaxes, Eri-Armuji asked all party cadres and volunteers to continue campaigning politely and positively.

"Mas Eri Cahyadi and Cak Armuji do not want the Pilkada to be a place to spread slander. So he both asked the entire team to continue campaigning on the basics of the program, not slander," concluded Aldi.

Previously, the Surabaya City Government confirmed a chain message via WhatsApp regarding the Eri Cahyadi-Armuji success team from ASN circles.

"In essence, the names of the municipal government ASN who are said to be the success team of one of the candidate pairs in the Surabaya Pilkada circulating on WhatsApp are hoaxes or not true," said Head of Public Relations of the Surabaya City Government, Febriadhitya Prajatara, quoted from Antara, Sunday, October 11.

Meanwhile, the leadership of the Surabaya City DPRD highlighted the circulation of chain messages about ASN to be the Eri Cahyadi-Armuji timses in the Surabaya Pilkada.

"If it is true, this is a public scandal in democracy which should be honest, fair, transparent, democratic and dignified," said Deputy Chairman of the Surabaya DPRD, AH Thony.

This Gerindra politician asked Commission A to immediately invite all the names listed, not forgetting to also present the inspectorate. For him, this needs to be done to find out and clarify the truth of the news circulating as well as in an effort to prevent polemics in the 2020 Surabaya Pilkada.