Indonesia's constitutional court shot down challenges to Prabowo Subianto's victory in the country's presidential election but did not ban his poll rivals from ever running for president again, contrary to claims made in an edited video viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media. Live footage of the constitutional court's decision shows judges did not ban Prabowo's rivals and the court's written decisions also make no mention of a purported ban.
Activists gathered in front of Indonesia's parliament in March 2024 to protest alleged violations in the presidential election, however, a clip of police firing water cannons shared in posts about the demonstrations has circulated online since 2019. The footage filmed by a local media outlet shows a violent protest in Indonesia's capital Jakarta against proposed amendments for a new criminal code.
Indonesia's former health minister Terawan Agus Putranto did not promote medication for hypertension during an interview with local channel Kompas TV, contrary to claims shared on a website mocked up to look like the broadcaster's official site that sells the capsule. The article uses screenshots from a July 2022 interview with Terawan alongside a fabricated transcript. An analysis of the interview, which was posted on Kompas TV's YouTube channel, showed the former minister did not mention hyper
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Rescuers in Indonesia were battling on Friday to extricate two people trapped between railway cars after commuter trains collided in the province of West Java, killing at least three and injuring 28, authorities said. Video images from broadcasters MetroTV and Kompas TV showed passengers being helped out of train carriages, some of which had gone off the rails entirely. Rescuers were weighing options to save the two people found squeezed between cars, said Herry Marantika, the head of a rescue agency, but declined to say if they were still alive.
A video has racked up hundreds of thousands of views after it is used to spread a false claim that hundreds of graves of unborn babies were found in a plantation that belongs to Al-Zaytun Islamic boarding school in Indonesia's West Java province. The video in fact uses unrelated clips and pictures, including footage from news reports of an unrelated case where police discovered the remains of babies allegedly killed by their father in Central Java province. A spokesman for the West Java regional