A video that falsely claims Indonesian police found hundreds of human skulls at an Islamic boarding school in the country's West Java province has racked up millions of views. The footage consists of unrelated clips and photos, including a clip that shows the discovery of an underground tunnel in East Java province. A spokesperson for the West Java regional police told AFP that the claim is false and that there is no discovery of human skulls in Al-Zaytun.
"Do a Complete Investigation, Discovery of Hundreds of Human Skulls at Al-Zaytun Islamic Boarding School," reads the Indonesian-language caption of this TikTok post, published on August 14, 2023.
The post also contains a two-minute video, which has racked up 16.6 million views.
Text on the clip says: "Terrifying, What Other Secrets Are Behind Al-Zaytun."
Screenshot of the misleading post, captured on August 29, 2023
The beginning of the video shows a crowd of people panicking, with one woman bursting into tears. It then shows a police officer stepping into a large ditch on the ground.
"It was during their fourth investigation that police were shocked at the discovery of a pile of skulls at Al-Zaytun," the narrator says in Indonesian.
Al-Zaytun, an Islamic boarding school located in Indonesia's West Java province, made headlines when its leader Panji Gumilang was detained by police on suspicions of blasphemy and hate speech on August 2, 2023.
The school has faced backlash from conservative Muslim groups for allowing women...
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