Hanura Cadres On Natalius Pigai: There Are No Racist Intentions, It Is Only Criticism, The Photo Was Copy-Pasted

Natalius Pigai (DOK. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Hanura Party cadre Ambroncius Nababan has fulfilled the summons for investigation as a reported case against Discrimination-based hate speech on social media against Natalius Pigai. Ambroncius emphasized that he had no intention of insulting him.

"There is nothing (racist). (Just to) criticize," Ambroncius told reporters Monday, January 25.

The criticism, said Ambroncius, was because Natalius Pigai did not believe in the Sinovac vaccine. But his distrust was vented to a wide audience so that it could interfere with government programs.

"That Mr. Pigai helps you if you disagree with Sinovac, it doesn't matter. Everyone can disagree but don't expose you to the fact that you don't believe in Sinovac. And (mentioning) I will buy products from abroad. That's a provocation, that's the bottom line," he explained.

Regardless of the reasons behind it, Ambroncius admitted that the post was his doing. However, for the gorilla image encoded with Natalius Pigai's photo, Ambroncius admitted to getting it from one of his colleagues.

"And actually the picture, I actually quoted it, I copied and pasted it. That was the same time, I found Fatimah's (account). Apparently, she posted that too but didn't say she was being racist and I was looking for other things, apparently, there were many. "But the person has never been said to be racist. But why am I who was just copy-pasted it, people called me racist," he said.

He considered the photo as criticism as well as a joke. He said the photo was not intended to insult anyone or the people of Papua.

"(Gorilla image) yes it is someone else's post. I see this is a good post. So I don't have the thought that it carries the name Papua because in the title there is no word for Papua," he said.

"The conversation I made. I admit I made it. Its nature is satire, satirical criticism. If intelligent people know that satire is a joke, it is not intended to insult people, let alone insult ethnicity and religion, no, too far away, let alone insulting people of Papua" continued Ambroncius.