Comedian Bintang Emon has actually refuted substance abuse allegations leveled against him as professionals raised issues over Indonesia ' s democracy and liberty of expression following his viral video that poked fun at the controversial light sentence handed down versus two police officers behind the acid attack on graft buster Unique Baswedan.
Emon published his drug test results on his Instagram account @bintangemon on Tuesday, exposing that the test taken at Pondok Indah Healthcare Facility in Puri Indah, West Jakarta returned negative.
View this post on InstagramKalo nanti masih ada berita ditangkap karena narkoboy, lucu juga sih Bintangemon negatif narkoba, positif kentang mustofa.
The test came following a series of tweets by anonymous accounts alleging that the funnyman was a methamphetamine addict. The tweets rapidly went viral, triggering the hashtag #bintangemon to pattern, with more than 270,000 tweets on Monday.
The attacks were presumably conducted by “buzzers” following Emon’s video that had gone viral on social networks. In the video published on his Twitter account, Emon highlighted the district attorneys’ insistence that the defendants in Novel’s case– Chief Brig. Ronny Bugis and Brig. Rahmat Kadir– had “unintentionally” thrown sulfuric acid at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) detective’s face in April 2017.
He also questioned the one-year sentence required by the district attorneys for the accuseds.
Besides the damaging tweets, Emon also claimed that he and his management group had been getting confidential emails.
“Someone began to harass my company email account, my sibling ' s accounts and my supervisor ' s account. I am still unwinded, calm,” he tweeted on Sunday.
Ismail Fahmi, analyst and creator of huge data seeking advice from company Drone Empirit, said based on his research study, the false accusation was initiated by 3 Twitter accounts, @LintangHanita @Tiara616 xxx, and @LiarAngsa on Sunday. All of the accounts have fewer than 10 followers.
“All the accounts published 5 similar tweets at precisely the very same time around 10: 45 p.m. to 10: 49 p.m. [on Sunday],” Fahmi stated by means of his Twitter account on Tuesday.
Ketiga akun itu adalah: @LintangHanita (2 fans), @Tiara616 xxx (9 fans), dan @LiarAngsa (0 followers).
Ketika masing-masing diexplore, semua menampilkan 5 postingan yang sama persis dan jam yang sama, antara 22: 45 sd 22: 49 WIB.
— Ismail Fahmi (@ismailfahmi) June 15, 2020
Fahmi stated the organized tweet attacks quickly went viral due to the fact that lots of well-known twitter accounts rapidly responded to the tweets. As of Tuesday, Fahmi stated all of the three accounts had actually been suspended so it would be difficult to trace their history and affiliations.
Southeast Asia Liberty of Expression Network ' s (SAFEnet) head of digital at-risks neighborhood, Ellen Kusuma, said the online attacks versus Emon followed a comparable pattern to recent attacks versus activists holding online conversations on #Papuanlivesmatter.
“These attacks are an effort to delegitimize the activists ' expressions by leading popular opinion. This is not the very first case and this won ' t be the last,” Ellen told tempo.co on Sunday.
Director of Jakarta-based Community Legal Help Institute (LBH Masyarakat), Muhammad Afif, also expressed comparable issue over online attacks versus Emon, declaring these trends could lead the nation ' s democracy into an authoritarian phase.
“At this moment, the country requires to protect people when they are revealing their viewpoints. By staying silent, the government has shown that it has no strong commitment to protecting our flexibility of expression,” Afif said.
“I, hereby, advise the federal government to investigate who is behind these attacks,” he added. (nal)
