Jakarta – A man in North Sumatra has been arrested for allegedly posting a photo collage of Vice President Ma'ruf Amin next to Japanese porn star Shigeo Tokuda, also known as Kakek (Grandpa) Sugiono among Indonesian adult movie watchers.
Officers of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) arrested the man, identified as Sulaiman Marpaung, at his house in Tanjungbalai city on Friday.
The photo collage was first posted on a Facebook account named Oliver Leaman S, allegedly owned by Sulaiman. The picture had also gone viral on other social networking platforms.
On Sept. 25, the head of Nadhlatul Ulama's youth wing GP Ansor in Tanjungbalai, Salman Al Hariz Saragih, reported Sulaiman to the police.
Sulaiman has been charged with violating Article 28 of the Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) law on spreading information to incite hatred, which carries a maximum sentence of six years' imprisonment.
National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Argo Yuwono said Sulaiman had uploaded the picture because he had been disappointed by a statement Ma'ruf had made, but he did not elaborate on the details.
Earlier, Salman said he had reported Sulaiman to create a deterrent effect and to remind the public not to be reckless in using social media.
"We object to the post uploaded on [Sulaiman's alleged] Facebook account that has insulted the vice president," he said as quoted by tempo.co. (aly)