Not Only Provocative About Papua, "President Ono Niha" Account Also Insinuates Palestinian Fundraising

The man with the initials AB for uploading provocative content about Papua on his TikTok account with the name president_ono_niha (Ist)

The Directorate of Cyber Crime, Bareskrim Polri arrested a man with the initials AB for uploading provocative content about Papua on his TikTok account under the name president_ono_niha.

From the results of the investigation, the suspect also satirized the fundraising for Palestine which made netizens furious.

"This also happened when he satirized the fundraising action for Palestinians and stated that he was ready to witness that Israeli missiles destroyed Hamas/Palestinian," wrote the Instagram account of the Directorate of Cyber Crimes at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency, quoted by VOI, Tuesday, January 2.

Regarding provocative content about Papua, it is not explained in detail in its form. Only conveyed, AB has created or distributed or viralized or uploaded content containing elements of hate speech.

Thus, the content of the suspect received a negative response and angered Papuans.

"The content uploaded by AB ignited the anger of Papuan netizens in the thousands of comments that appeared," he wrote.

In this case, AB is suspected of under Article 45A paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 28 paragraph (2) of Law number 19 of 2016 concerning amendments to Law number 11 of 2008 concerning ITE and/or Article 16 in conjunction with Article 4 letters b number 1 and 2 of Law number 40 of 2008 concerning Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and/or Article 156 of the Criminal Code.

Previously, Papua Police Chief Inspector General Mathius Fakhiri admitted that AB (30), the owner of the hate spreader account, had been arrested by the Bareskrim cyber team in the West Jakarta area, Saturday, December 30 evening.

"It is true that the AB who has been arrested by the Bareskrim cyber team related to hate speech against supporters of the former Papua Governor, the late Lukas Enembe, was uploaded to his TikTok account. The investigation is still ongoing and is currently still waiting for further information from the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police Headquarters," said Fakhiri.

It was said that the arrest was made after a report was made regarding the owner of the Tiktok account @presiden_ono_niha who uploaded hate speech and contained SARA against Enembe supporters. From that report, an investigation was carried out until the account owner was found.

During the interim investigation, it was also revealed that the owner of the president's_ono_niha account often made provocative content and went viral.