Police Hunt For Spreading Hoax Videos Related To Sadistic Robbery In Kalideres

Catch the West Jakarta robbery hoax video screen

JAKARTA - Kalideres Police Chief AKP Syafri Wasdar confirmed that the video of the armed robbery that took place at Citra 6, Kalideres, West Jakarta and was viral on social media Instagram was declared a hoax or fake news.

The video narration states that armed robbery took place at around 15.30 WIB with three fatalities and losses reaching 1.5 billion.

"Information to friends in the area of image 6, there has been a robbery with guns, three people have died. There has been a robbery worth 1.5 billion," said someone in the hoax video.

AKP Syafri said that the crowd in the viral video were members who wanted to protect students who were suspected of having a brawl on Thursday, May 19.

"That's a hoax. Yesterday's viral video took care of the students who were hanging out there (allegedly going into a brawl)," he said when confirmed, Friday, May 20, night.

AKP Syafri said he would look for the video spreader and the maker of the hoax narration because it was troubling the community.

"We will be investigated. Incidentally, his voice is very clear, yes, we will find out because this is very disturbing to the public, spreading fake news," he said.

The Kalideres Police have also reported the distribution of the hoax video to the West Jakarta Police and the Metro Jaya Police to track down the owner of the voice in the video.

Meanwhile, the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Kalideres Police, Iptu Subartoyo, added that the viral video was the act of an irresponsible person. He also confirmed that the viral video was not true.

"The name of social media is people who are not responsible. We have investigated and gone there, certainly there are no problems," he said.