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.