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Multiple social media posts and online reports have published photos they claim show the discovery of 70 million ballots sent from China that have been marked in favour of Indonesian President Joko Widodo to rig this year’s election. The claims are false; they use old images available online about regular pre-election activities. Indonesia’s election commissioner has also said the reports are false. This post was shared more than 16,000 times in the first 13 hours after being published on January 2. Snapshot of the false post. Its caption translates to: New update. Seven containers from China containing ballots that had been cast for the ballot number one candidate have been discovered in Tanjung Priok port. Each of the containers contains 10 million ballots. So the total is 70 million casted ballots. The containers have been confiscated by Indonesian Navy officials and have been sent to the general election commission. Tanjung Priok is a port in Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta. Indonesia will hold a presidential election in April this year, which pits Widodo against his sole rival, Prabowo Subianto. Widodo is officially number one on the ballot, according to the election commission’s website . The post features an image of a blue container with the watermark of Waspada.co.id -- an online news outlet based in Medan, capital of Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. This other post, which was shared more than 11,000 times in the first 15 hours after being posted on January 2, made a similar claim, although with different illustrations. Snapshot of other false post. The false claims have appeared elsewhere online, including these reports here and here . Reverse image searches found that the photos used in both of the false posts above were taken from earlier media reports. The photo used in the first Facebook post was taken from this Waspada.co.id articled dated November 16, 2018, about the distribution of ballots for the coming election in North Sumatra province. Below is a screenshot of the Waspada article. Snapshot of Waspada.co.id article titled 2019 election ballot boxes have arrived in 19 regencies and municipalities. Three images shared by the second post were sourced from various news reports about the 2017 elections for Jakarta’s governorship. The links to the three articles are here , here and here . Below are the snapshots of those articles. Snapshot of the original source dated January 23, 2017, and titled Jakarta gubernatorial election: Two containers of ballots have arrived in Tanjung Priok and will be distributed to Jakarta election commission. Snapshot of one of the sources, titled Jakarta gubernatorial election: Jakarta election commission will distribute 7.2 million ballots. Snapshot of one of the sources, captioned On January 17, a worker at PT Adi Perkasa printing company in Makassar, South Sulawesi, packs ballots that will be used for the Jakarta gubernatorial election. The final image of the green boxes of paper was taken from an illustration of a stationery business advertisement posted in a local online marketplace. Below is a snapshot of that advertisement. Snapshot of the illustration of the stationery business advertisement. Indonesian general elections commission (KPU) chairman Arif Budiman visited Tanjung Priok late on January 2 in response to the false claims and inspect the port. In a press briefing held after the operation and broadcast by local station Kompas TV, Budiman dismissed the claims. Below is Kompas’s Youtube broadcast of the press briefing. At minute 48:12 of the clip, Budiman says: Today we can confirm that, based on what we have been told by customs and excises officials, there is no information about the discovery of the claimed seven containers. That’s not true. It is also false that the containers were found by Indonesian Navy officials and have been sent to KPU. Video of kpu_dan_bawaslu_cek_dugaan_surat_suara_tercoblos_-_breaking_news
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