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Jakarta councilors report Facebook user for alleged defamation
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The Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad. (AP/Matt Rourke, File)
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everal members of the Jakarta City Council reported the owner of Facebook account Cahyo Harimurti to the Jakarta Police on Tuesday for alleged defamation and libel.
Cahyo allegedly defamed all members of the council by calling them “monkey” on a post in his Facebook account. Word of the post spread to the councilor’s WhatsApp group chat.
“Around 40 out of 106 councilors have agreed to report him to the police,” said councilor Muhammad Guntur on Tuesday, as quoted by wartakota.tribunews.com.
The Jakarta Police received the councilors’ report on Tuesday evening. Guntur said that members of city councils hoped that the police would investigate similar cases to discourage people from making posts that could be interpreted as defamatory on their social media accounts.
“We should be more careful about posting comments on social media, as it could lead to insults,” Guntur said. (kuk)
