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Lecturer claims to have received threats over spreading of Ahok clip
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Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaya Purnama is at work in his office. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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ondon School of Public Relations (LSPR) lecturer Buni Yani says he has received threats from an unidentified caller after spreading a video clip of a speech by Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama.
A staff member of the LSPR’s post-graduate program apparently picked up the call on Saturday.
“Utin, the staff member, told me that the caller had asked to meet me, in harsh words. The caller threatened to send people to attack the campus,” Buni claimed, as reported by tempo.co on Saturday.
Previously, a group calling itself the Ahok-Djarot Saiful Hidayat Young Advocate Community reported Buni for using his Facebook account to spread a clip of a speech the governor gave when visiting Thousand Islands last week. Buni was accused of editing the video.
In his speech, Ahok referred to verse 51 of the Quran. The governor was reported to the police over religious defamation for citing the verse when saying that the people had been “lied to” and “fooled”.
Buni expressed his concern over the threat received by his workplace, saying that the case had nothing to do with his institution. He said he may resign from his institution over the case.
“It is my activity outside the campus, therefore, it would be better for me to resign, so that they would not link it to the LSPR,” he added. (bbn)
