“My name is Dheva Suprayoga,” a young man in a red T-shirt and jeans said straight into the camera. “I want to straighten out and clarify that I have not travelled anywhere since yesterday and that I attended Friday prayers at the Darussalam Mosque in Kebumen.”

“I can assure you that the person in the video is not me, and I support the efforts of the National Police to catch the perpetrator and resolve this case as soon as possible,” he continued.

Dheva Suprayoga, a resident of Kebumen, Central Java, recorded the video following accusations that he had threatened President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo during a rally held by supporters of Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto in front of the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) headquarters in Central Jakarta.

A viral video allegedly taken at the rally shows a man, dressed in a peci cap and brown jacket, saying: "We from Poso [Central Sulawesi] are ready to behead Jokowi. Insya Allah, Allahu Akbar [God willing, God is the greatest], we will behead him. Jokowi, get ready, [because] we from Poso will behead you in God's name."

Former journalist and vocal Jokowi supporter Ulin Yusron posted pictures of two men he said may be the man in the video, along with their personal information, including their ID card number, date of birth and home address.

Dheva is one of the men Ulin put in the spotlight in a practice called "doxxing" – publishing an individual's personal or identifying information on the internet.

Ulin eventually deleted both pictures and apologized for misidentifying Dheva, though not for posting the personal information in the first place.

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