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Island focus: Policewoman fired over nude videos

A policewoman in Makassar, South Sulawesi, has been fired after suggestive selfies and nude videos of her were spread online by a man who catfished her through social media

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Mon, January 7, 2019 Published on Jan. 7, 2019 Published on 2019-01-07T01:11:23+07:00

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Island focus: Policewoman fired over nude videos

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policewoman in Makassar, South Sulawesi, has been fired after suggestive selfies and nude videos of her were spread online by a man who catfished her through social media.

The woman, a police brigadier, thought the man was a police officer from Lampung province, but it was later revealed that he was a convicted murderer serving 10 years in a Lampung prison.

Her firing was also based on alleged affairs that she had with two regional police officers in South Sulawesi.

“She was involved in immoral activities that violated the code of ethics and made her no longer eligible to be a member of the National Police,” Makassar Police chief Sr. Comr. Wahyu Dwi Ariwibowo said as quoted by tribunnews.com.

Mariana Amiruddin from the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) criticized the manner, in which police handled the case, saying they did not take into account the perspective of the victim. She said the police’s ethics council should have treated the incident as a cybercrime and considered the policewoman a victim before firing her.

“As a victim, she should be protected because this includes sexual violence through cybermedia,” Mariana told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

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