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Gerindra to file report on Prabowo footage
A lawyer says the Gerindra Party will file a report to the police regarding the publication of video footage in which presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is seen apparently hitting a man on the face as the former enters the General Elections Commission (KPU) office to register himself and Hatta Rajasa as presidential and vice-presidential candidates on Tuesday
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lawyer says the Gerindra Party will file a report to thepolice regarding the publication of video footage in which presidentialcandidate Prabowo Subianto is seen apparently hitting a man on the face as theformer enters the General Elections Commission (KPU) office to registerhimself and Hatta Rajasa as presidential and vice-presidential candidates on Tuesday.
The footage, which lasts less than a minute, has been widely circulated on YouTube.
'We are currently trying to find information about the person who first published the footage and will report it as a slander,' Gerindra's lawyer Habiburokhman said as quoted by kompas.com on Friday.
He said the allegation of a violent act by Prabowo was fabricated due to the overcrowded situation in front of the KPU's building.
'We will report it on Saturday. The slanderer could be charged under the 2008 Information Transaction Law for having the intention to spread malicious lies through electronic means,' Habiburokhman said.
Prabowo and Hatta Rajasa are the candidate pair supported by Gerindra's coalition, which also involves the Golkar Party, the National Mandate Party (PAN), the United Development Party (PPP) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), which garnered a total of 45.3 percent, or 292 out of a total 560 seats at the House of Representatives, in the April 9 legislative election. (gda)
