Jail term for sharing false info

Jakarta: Kazahra Tanzania, a stay-at-home mother who lives in Balikpapan, advised residents in a Facebook post to wear protective masks because she had heard that a man in the city who had recently visited China had been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.

The information, which she received from her brother who works at a local hospital, turned out to be false, and she quickly took down her post and issued an apology. “Apologies for my previous post, which has been troubling residents of Balikpapan, ” she wrote.