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AFP
22-05-2025
- General
- AFP
Video shows capsized ferry in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, not Sulawesi
"A ferry capsized at the Parepare Port, I hope there are no fatalities," reads an Indonesian-language Facebook post on April 25, 2025. The post includes a video showing people witnessing a ship slowly capsizing. Some voices yelling "God is Great" in Arabic are heard in the background. Image Screenshot of the misinformation post, captured on April 29, 2025 The same video was shared elsewhere on Facebook after a boat carrying eight passengers capsized due to extreme weather in the waters of Selayar Islands Regency, South Sulawesi. Indonesian media organisation Detik reported there were no fatalities during the accident (archived link). However, there are no official reports of a ferry capsizing at Parepare Port as of May 22. A combination of Google reverse image and keyword searches found the same clip used in a news report by Indonesian broadcaster iNews on February 21, 2021 about a ferry sinking in West Kalimantan's Perigi Piai Port (archived link). The circulating video can be seen at the 14-second mark of the video report, which says the the ship lost balance as passengers disembarked from one side and the docking rope broke. Image Screenshot comparison between the false post (left) and the iNews video The video matches Google Maps imagery of Perigi Piai port, 1,300 kilometres (807 miles) away from Parepare port in Sulawesi (archived link). A video of the accident has also been geotagged at Perigi Piai port (archived link). Indonesian newspaper Kompas published a similar photo of the accident on February 20, 2021 (archived link).
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Video shows capsized ferry in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, not Sulawesi
"A ferry capsized at the Parepare Port, I hope there are no fatalities," reads an Indonesian-language Facebook post on April 25, 2025. The post includes a video showing people witnessing a ship slowly capsizing. Some voices yelling "God is Great" in Arabic are heard in the background. The same video was shared elsewhere on Facebook after a boat carrying eight passengers capsized due to extreme weather in the waters of Selayar Islands Regency, South Sulawesi. Indonesian media organisation Detik reported there were no fatalities during the accident (archived link). However, there are no official reports of a ferry capsizing at Parepare Port as of May 22. A combination of Google reverse image and keyword searches found the same clip used in a news report by Indonesian broadcaster iNews on February 21, 2021 about a ferry sinking in West Kalimantan's Perigi Piai Port (archived link). The circulating video can be seen at the 14-second mark of the video report, which says the the ship lost balance as passengers disembarked from one side and the docking rope broke. The video matches Google Maps imagery of Perigi Piai port, 1,300 kilometres (807 miles) away from Parepare port in Sulawesi (archived link). A video of the accident has also been geotagged at Perigi Piai port (archived link). Indonesian newspaper Kompas published a similar photo of the accident on February 20, 2021 (archived link).
South China Morning Post
29-04-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Indonesia's free meal scheme faces calls for stronger food safety standards
Indonesia 's flagship free nutritious meals programme, a centrepiece of President Prabowo Subianto 's administration, has come under more scrutiny following yet another mass food poisoning incident and allegations of funding irregularities. Advertisement Launched in January with a budget of US$4.2 billion, the programme aims to reduce stunting and malnutrition by providing meals to 82.9 million students, toddlers, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. Several food-poisoning incidents, however, have prompted calls for closer oversight as the government pledged to strengthen the programme. At least 165 students at two schools in Cianjur regency in West Java fell ill after consuming free meals on April 21, with nearly 80 hospitalised. Authorities have declared the incident an 'extraordinary event' and are conducting investigations. Tono Listianto, head of the criminal investigation unit at the Cianjur district police, said preliminary tests of food containers that were used by the students showed contamination with 'staphylococcus, E coli, and salmonella bacteria'. 'It is not yet possible to conclude the cause of the poisoning, because the results from the food sample test … will come out in 10 working days,' Tono told local media outlet Detik. Advertisement Reports of food poisoning linked to the free meals programme have also surfaced in Southeast Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara and Central Java over the past three months, according to local authorities.
South China Morning Post
29-04-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Indonesia's free meal scheme faces calls for stronger food safety standards
Indonesia 's flagship free nutritious meals programme, a centrepiece of President Prabowo Subianto 's administration, has come under more scrutiny following yet another mass food poisoning incident and allegations of funding irregularities. Advertisement Launched in January with a budget of US$4.2 billion, the programme aims to reduce stunting and malnutrition by providing meals to 82.9 million students, toddlers, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. Several food-poisoning incidents, however, have prompted calls for closer oversight as the government pledged to strengthen the programme. At least 165 students at two schools in Cianjur regency in West Java fell ill after consuming free meals on April 21, with nearly 80 hospitalised. Authorities have declared the incident an 'extraordinary event' and are conducting investigations. Tono Listianto, head of the criminal investigation unit at the Cianjur district police, said preliminary tests of food containers that were used by the students showed contamination with 'staphylococcus, E coli, and salmonella bacteria'. 'It is not yet possible to conclude the cause of the poisoning, because the results from the food sample test … will come out in 10 working days,' Tono told local media outlet Detik. Advertisement Reports of food poisoning linked to the free meals programme have also surfaced in Southeast Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara and Central Java over the past three months, according to local authorities.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Old clip of detained debt collector falsely linked to Indonesia protests
"The moment the mastermind behind the burning of the Prabowo-Gibran photos during a protest was arrested today after being on the run for six days," reads the Indonesian-language text overlay on a TikTok video, referring to the archipelago's President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka. The clip -- shared April 2, 2025 and watched over 12,000 times since -- shows a hooded person escorted by a police officer leaving a vehicle. The video circulated following nationwide demonstrations in February against budget cuts by Prabowo's government aimed at funding a free-meal programme for schoolkids and other big-ticket campaign pledges (archived link). Local media Detik reported some protesters burned photos of the president and Gibran in Malang city in East Java province (archived link). Malang Police Department spokesperson Yudi Risdiyanto told AFP on April 10 that no arrests had been made in relation to the burning of Prabowo and Gibran's portraits. Kompas news organisation separately said at least six people were arrested but later released in Makassar in South Sulawesi province during a demonstration that turned chaotic (archived here and here). The video surfaced elsewhere on TikTok, SnackVideo and Facebook alongside similar claims. But a reverse image search on Google found it was taken from a news report that local media TvOne uploaded on YouTube on February 23, 2023 titled "Debt Collector Yells at Police, Threatens to Kill Driver" (archived link). Its caption says police arrested seven debt collectors accused of forcibly seizing a person's car and yelling at the police, and that they could be jailed for up to seven years. KompasTV also reported about the arrests and published a video showing the same man flanked by officers (archived link). AFP has debunked more misinformation related to protests in Indonesia.
