Mahfud MD About Anies Threatened While Live TikTok: Don't Threaten Each Other, This Is A Legal State

Vice Presidential Candidate Mahfud MD in Makassar/ANTARA/Darwin Fatir.

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs and vice-presidential candidate Mahfud MD believes the police can uncover a case of alleged threats of shooting of presidential candidate Anies Baswedan.

"Let's investigate, we should not threaten each other, because this is a state of law, a democratic country. I believe the authorities can reveal that," Mahfud said in Makassar, as reported by ANTARA, Saturday, January 13.

According to Mahfud, of course the police will move by conducting an investigation, especially since threats through social media can be tracked down who made the threat.

"If you are threatened with social media, you can trace the threat, and sometimes from the point of view of threatening intelligence, sometimes when you are not an enemy, your own friend seems to make threats so that other people are interested. It's not real threats, it can happen," he told reporters.

When asked whether or not Anies needed to report the threat, Mahfud invited the person concerned to report the incident to the authorities.

"Well, if you want to report, just report it. But, actually if there is no need for a report, what needs to be a report if there is a complaint offense. If a crime like that, (it is likened) there is a fire where it is, the police must immediately look for the burner, there is no need to wait for the report, it will end later," said the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court emphasizing.

This professor of the Faculty of Law, Islamic University of Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta explained that all Indonesian citizens have equal rights and positions in the eyes of the law, so if there are legal problems, of course there are procedural issues.

"So in the law, there are reports, there are complaints. In my opinion, Anies does not need to report if the data does not exist. However, the police immediately moved, right, we have a cyber police who can know this first appears, right," he asserted.

The police confirmed that the owner of the TikTok account, @calonistri71600, threatened to shoot Anies Baswedan, not related to other couples in the 2024 presidential election. This certainty was obtained after they arrested a 23-year-old man with the initials AWK in the Jember area, East Java.

"Until now, thank God there is nothing related to the problem, initial information. That's why we emphasize, is that the account true. That's right, that's his account and whether he tweeted and it has been acknowledged," said the Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Inspector General Sandi Nugroho at a press conference in Jakarta, Saturday, January 13.

It is known that Anies received the threat of shooting on TikTok social media from the @calonistri71600 account, 'How many years in prison, Mr. Anies?'.

Even so, Sandi said the investigation was still being carried out by the team of the Cyber Directorate of Bareskrim Polri and the Cyber Sub-Directorate of the East Java Police. The police continue to look for AWK's motive for writing the threat.