Pornography is strictly illegal in Indonesia, which makes what appeared on the official Twitter account of the country’s Foreign Ministry account at around 7 pm yesterday all the more shocking.
Around that time, two tweets featuring pornographic pictures appeared, seven minutes apart, were sent out by the official government account. The first was a photo of a naked woman with an Arabic caption, while the second obscene photo featured a Japanese caption.
The photos were taken down very soon after and the account then tweeted out an apology blaming the incident on “irresponsible spammers.”
#SahabatKemlu terkait adanya post yang tidak relevan di akun Twitter Kemlu. Dapat kami informasikan bahwa itu adalah spam dari pihak yg tidak bertanggung jawab. Kami mohon maaf atas ketidaknyamanan yg ditimbulkan.
— MoFA Indonesia (@Kemlu_RI) December 3, 2017
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said the ministry is conducting an investigation into whether their account was possibly hacked.
“We are tightening the security (of our Twitter account),” Arrmanatha said yesterday, as quoted by Detik.
While sending out porn from an official government account is obviously very bad (especially in Indonesia), if indeed it was hackers that were able to take control of the Foreign Ministry’s Twitter, then they should consider themselves lucky it was only used to send out porn and not a declaration of war on another country or something like that.
