Viral Snack Contains Roti And Santan Kara For PON Athletes, Menpora: Hoax, That's A Joke Of An Individual

Workers Rest At North Sumatra Sport Center's Indoor Volleyball GOR, Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra, Tuesday (10/9/2024)/ ANTARA PHOTO/Rivan Awal Lingga/nz

JAKARTA - Minister of Youth and Sports Dito Ariotedjo opened his voice about the virality of snacks or snacks containing bread and coconut milk for XXI PON athletes in Aceh-North Sumatra. Dito ensured that it was a hoax and was just a joke.

Dito admitted that in the first week of the implementation of PON XXI, the food provided was indeed inadequate. However, he said, the problem was immediately evacuated and repaired by the organizers both in Aceh and in North Sumatra.

Although food for athletes is the responsibility of the organizers through the APBD, said Dito, Kemenpora is also responsive and installs bada.

"Food is a regional responsibility through the APBD. But I always say in the media, at this time I don't want the management of PON to be dichotomized, which is the responsibility of the region, which is the central responsibility. Anyway, all the responsibility of the Menpora. Let's just put up a body, now we always respond quickly," said Dito, Tuesday, September 17.

"And I also have to explain, the most typical example of a viral snack is given bread and milk replaced by santen, we can make sure it is a hoax and a joke from an individual," he continued.

After the Ministry of Youth and Sports conducted an investigation, said Dito, the accounts that uploaded videos related to snacks and food for PON athletes had been disabled.

"After we chase it, we investigate, the accounts will be turned off immediately, ma'am. And it has been taken down," said Dito.

Therefore, the Golkar politician asked the public to carefully capture information circulating on social media. Especially regarding the implementation of this XXI PON.

"So there is a lot of information that sometimes has facts but sometimes it is added to hoaxes too. So we have to really sort out which ones are right or not," said Dito.

Previously, a viral video recording a snack night package prepared for Judoka athletes at the Aceh PON. The reason is, there are packaged coconuts in a snack night package distributed by the committee to athletes.

The video was originally shared by the TikTok account @detoooo60 and re-uploaded by the Instagram account @fakta.jakarta to reap the spotlight of netizens.

In the 20-second video, an athlete can be seen showing a white box reading a snack night.

Several Judoka athletes who competed in PON XXI at the Kuala Syiah University (USK) Banda Aceh Center complained about the food facilities provided by the committee. "wrote the Instagram account @fakta.jakarta in the description of his upload.

When opened, the evening snack package contained only bread and packaged coconut milk. The presence of packaged coconuts included as drinks for athletes in the evening snack package was considered unusual.

When reported from the LKPP website, the procurement of consumption for athletes, coaches and officials was IDR 42.5 billion. If detailed, the consumption of heavy food (nation) for athletes costs IDR 50,900 per serving, while snacks are IDR 18,900 per serving.