Shady News Media Subjects Luhut Pandjaitan to Hoax News
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22 January 2019 06:52 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan threatened to report a news media to the police after he became subject to a hoax which published a fabricated statement on behalf of him.
“If an official apology is not issued soon, we will be taking this matter to the court,” said Luhut on Monday in a written statement he uploaded onto his Facebook account.
An article published by the media with a blog domain, operain.blogspot.com, wrote a false statement on behalf of Luhut as its title that read ‘Luhut: I vow to kiss Prabowo’s feet if he gets elected as president.’
Moreover, Luhut Pandjaitan strongly denies he had ever issued such statement whether verbally or written and confirms that it is basically a falsified statement. After acknowledging the hoax, in the same Facebook post Luhut urged everyone to cast their votes rationally and compare each candidates’ history.
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