MoSA Appreciates the Responsive Steps of the Police to Arrest the Perpetrators of Spreading Hoax

Writer :

Koesworo Setiawan

Translator :

Karlina Irsalyana

JAKARTA (July 19, 2021) - At the direction of the Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini, MoSA is carrying out legal proceedings against perpetrators of spreading hoaxes on behalf of MoSA. Based on the Ministry of Social Affairs’ report, the Jakarta Metro Police managed to arrest the perpetrators.

MoSA expressed its gratitude and highest appreciation to the police who were able to swiftly arrest the perpetrators of the website maker https://subsidippkm.online. The police's decisive step is a response to the Ministry of Social Affairs’ report regarding the spread of fake news (hoax) by the site last week.

"We express our gratitude and fully support the fast and firm response from the Police who are taking law enforcement steps to secure the perpetrators. Hopefully, the law enforcement steps will have a deterrent effect on perpetrators and other parties from taking similar actions," said Head of the Public Relations Bureau of MoSA Hasim, in Jakarta (19/07).

Through the link https://subsidippkm.online/pembagi-subsidi/?PPKMjuli#1625647777785, this site has circulated a chain message containing the IDR 300,000 PPKM social assistance registration form by answering several questions. Through a form with the logo of MoSA, the registrant is asked to share it with friends via the Whatsapp application, which will then receive a confirmation via SMS.

“The message is a hoax. MoSA has never created a website for the registration of recipients of IDR 300,000 social assistance. Especially in the form of chain messages," said Hasim.

MoSA has produced messages containing denials that the chain messages are lies or hoaxes through the ministry's official accounts. However, in its development, rebuttal to false news is not enough.

For that reason, MoSA through Legal Bureau made an official report to the Polda Metro Jaya on Thursday (08/07). Through a press conference, the Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Pol Yusri Yunus stated that the perpetrators had been acting since November 2020. From his actions. The perpetrators made a profit from advertising of around IDR 1.5 billion. "The perpetrator is suspected of being under Article 35 in conjunction with Article 51 of the Electronic Information and Transaction Law with a threat of 12 years in prison," said Kombes Yusri.

Reports to law enforcement are carried out with consideration that the content is considered to have defamed MoSA, which is currently receiving an assignment in the field of social protection for communities affected by the pandemic.

"All the energy and focus of the state's attention, including MoSA, are now being directed to help ease the burden on people affected by the pandemic. The content is very disturbing and injures the hard efforts in handling the pandemic because it is disturbing and disrupts public trust in the government," he said.

Hasim appealed to the public not to try to give hoax information, especially related to social assistance. During an emergency, people need help because they may lose their income or lose their jobs.

“Then there are those who play on the public's expectations with fake news. I think this is very disgraceful. The actions of the perpetrators have harmed our collective efforts in the fight against the pandemic and our hard work has eased the burden on society," said Hasim.

The public is expected not to be easily tempted and believe in various information that develops, especially in the realm of cyberspace. "If anyone wants to ask for clarity, they can access the official government information channel, they can open the official website of MoSA or through the website https://cekbansos.kemensos.go.id/," he said.

To handle the impact of the pandemic, the government through the National Economic Recovery (PEN) provides social protection, one of which is in the form of Cash Social Assistance (BST) to 10 million Beneficiary Families (KPM). Since April 2020, MoSA has distributed BST worth IDR 300,000/month through PT Pos Indonesia.

For 2021, BST is distributed from January to April. Then BST was added by two months, namely May and June which were distributed simultaneously in July. The BST recipients are families registered in the Social Welfare Integrated Data (DTKS) proposed by the local government, from the Directorate General of Social Rehabilitation of MoSA, social welfare institutions, or legal entities.

2021-07-20
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