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A photo of men and women praying together at an Indonesian election rally held by opposition candidate Prabowo Subianto has been shared in multiple online posts that claim the image is a hoax. The claim is false; the purported original image showing only women has been doctored, while the picture of the men and women was taken by a photographer for a major Indonesian news website. Indonesian presidential challenger Prabowo Subianto held a large rally in the capital Jakarta on April 7, 2019. The event was reported by local and regional media, including The Jakarta Post here and The Straits Times here . Posts on Facebook – for example this one dated April 7, 2019, and this one shared dozens of times since being published April 8, 2019 – and on Twitter for example here , share a photo collage that contains two images overlaid with yellow Indonesian-language text. The top image shows four women and two men standing in the front row and praying together. More men are seen standing behind them. Translated to English, the text on it says: This is a hoax. The bottom image purports to show six women praying together in a row: three wearing hijabs in different colours and the other three are in white niqabs. More women wearing white niqabs appear behind them. Translated into English, the text on it says: This is the real one. It is unusual for Muslim men and women to pray together, as they are typically separated in mosques. Here is a debate on such gender segregation broadcast in 2010 on US-based National Public Radio. Below is a screenshot of one of the false Facebook posts: Screenshot of false Facebook post Translated into English, the caption of the Facebook post says, There will come a year full of deception/ Dajjal’s slander at the end of time. Dajjal refers to an Antichrist-like figure in Islamic belief. Another of the Facebook posts here has a caption that says, in Indonesian: The Cebong groups if they do not slander they will get nothing to eat.. Do not believe this hoax. This is what is really happening in GBK. Cebong always make slander to vilify team #02. Cebong, which literally means tadpole, is a term used by those who back the opposition candidates to attack supporters of President Joko Widodo, who is seeking re-election in Indonesian polls on April 17, 2019. Here is the candidate list on the website of the country’s General Elections Commission, which shows Prabowo listed as number 02 on the ballot, and here is a CNN Indonesia report about derogatory nicknames used by campaigners on each side. GBK refers to the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, where Prabowo held his rally. Here is the venue’s website. Examining the image described as real in the online posts reveals that it has been doctored. All the women wearing white are identical; they are standing in exactly the same position, with the same pattern of creases seen on their niqab. These similarities are highlighted in the screenshot below, in which the original woman wearing white is circled in orange and the copies are circled in red: Image showing that the bottom picture in the false Facebook post has been doctored Keyword searches on Facebook found that the photo of men and women praying together appeared in this article dated April 7, 2019, on Indonesian news website detik.com. The caption of the photo in the article says, translated into English: Supporters of presidential-vice presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno are holding a mass dawn prayer at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta, Sunday (7/4/2019). The image below compares the false Facebook post (L) with the photo that appears on the detik.com article: Image comparing screenshot of misleading post (L) and screenshot of detik.com article (R) On April 8, 2019, Detik also published a separate article here that contains another photo of the same men and women praying. The headline of that article says: Mixed prayer in Prabowo’s campaign; PBNU: it is forbidden. PBNU refers to the Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization. This is its website. Below is a screenshot of the photo in the April 8 article: Screenshot of April 8 detik.com article An editor for detik.com, Dicky Sastra, told AFP that of the two photos shared on social media, the photo showing only women praying together had been altered: The photo underneath is the one that has been doctored. Detik sent AFP copies of the original photo and three others showing the same scene. The image below shows all four photos: Image showing four photos sent to AFP by editors at detik.com
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