Video Of Indonesian National Armed Forces Officers Marching Respectfully To Ahok

TNI officials lined up respectfully and shook hands with Ahok. (screenshot)

JAKARTA - Social media activist Yusuf Muhammad responded to a viral video showing TNI (Indonesian National Armed) officials lined up to shake hands and salute PT Pertamina (Persero) Commissioner, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok.

In the video, Ahok, who is wearing a green striped shirt, also gets a soldier's salute. However, the circulating narrative cornered TNI officials who were with Ahok at that time.

"From the attitude of the body to Ahok, this can be proof that @Puspen_TNI's have become Chinese lackeys", wrote @RestyCaayah, one of the accounts that spread the video in the post, Monday, April 25.

Yusuf assessed that those who distributed the 44-second video had been uncivilized. According to him, their mindset is not from the advanced civilization of Indonesia.

"The pride of the nation and the state has been trampled on by the scum of civilization", he said.

Disagreeing with the narration in the video, Yusuf also poked at the Twitter accounts of the TNI Information Center @Puspen_TNI and the Directorate of Cyber Crimes, National Police-Criminal Investigation Agency @CCICPolri.

Yusuf seemed to ask law enforcement officials to act decisively against the misleading video.

The video containing Ahok and TNI officials has been circulating on social media along with the #Ahok hashtag on Twitter since this afternoon.

The hashtag #Ahok on Indonesian Twitter occupies the top six positions. A total of 3212 netizens tweeted about the name Ahok.

VOI search, the video was first uploaded to Basuki Tjahaja Purnama's official TikTok account. However, it is misused by redistributing it with narratives that do not fit the circumstances.

The incident with TNI officials happened when Ahok was still governor of DKI Jakarta in December 2014. At that moment, the TNI Commander General Moeldoko even put a beret on Ahok at the DKI Jakarta city hall.