Footage of the funeral procession of a late Indonesian provincial governor has been shared with a false claim that it shows people protesting the arrest of a man in an unrelated murder case. The video was filmed in December 2023 in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua – months before the man in the case was taken into custody.
“It will make you shudder!! The situation of Cirebon city, June 1, 2024, calling for justice based on the fifth principle,” read the Indonesian caption of one TikTok Video posted June 1, 2024.
The footage – viewed more than 535,000 times – shows a large crowd gathered on the road, with superimposed text that translates as: “In search of justice, there is no more victim, this is Cirebon, I’m Cirebonese, I don’t understand, this is really a protest for the late Vina and Eki and justice for Pegi.”
The post referred to Vina Dewi Arsita and Muhammad Rizky – a couple murdered in Cirebon in West Java in August 2016. It also mentioned Pegi Setiawan, a man arrested on May 21, 2024 for the murders, local media said. reported (archived link). He denied any involvement.
The AFP has already debunked misinformation about the double homicide case here.
Authorities said Pegi was among those initial list of 11 members of a motorcycle gang responsible for the murders (archived link).
Eight other gang members have already been convicted. Seven of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment, while one was released in 2020 after completing four years of his eight-year sentence (archived link).
The same videos were shared along with a similar false claim on Facebook here It is here; and on YouTube here racking up over 4,000 views.
But the video shows a funeral procession for Lucas Enembé — a former governor of the Indonesian province of Papua, who died in December 2023.
Funeral crowd
A reverse image search on Google found that the clip was used in a report published by local media outlet Kontan on December 28, 2023 about Lukas’ funeral (archived link).
The fake clip scene can be seen at the 20 second mark of the Kontan video.
The Indonesian text in the video read: “People paraded Enembe’s body from the airport to Jayapura Theological School for burial and then took it to Lukas Enembe’s private residence in Kota Tengah, Muara Tami District, Jayapura City , Papua.”
Below is a screenshot comparison of the fake video (left) and the video in Kontan’s report (right):
Local media reported that the crowd paraded Lukas’ body from Sentani airport to a theology school in the city (archived link).
Several elements of Kontan’s video also confirm that the video was filmed in Papua Province – namely the display board, the style of the bridge railings, and the Horison Express Sentani building, a hotel in Papua Province.
Below is a comparison of these features between the Kontan report (left), the same section of road seen in Google Street View (top right), and a photo of the Horison Express Sentani building seen on his Instagram account (bottom right):
Lukas died of kidney failure on December 26, 2023 while serving an eight-year prison sentence for a corruption conviction, local media reported (archived link).
