Pokemon Go game is on the rise. Since its release earlier this month, Pokemon Go has immediately captured the attention of the world's citizens, including in Indonesia.

Pokemon Go is a game made by Nintendo based on Augmented Reality (AR) technology. In playing it, he relies on the ability of GPS and cellphone cameras.

In Indonesia, Pokemon Go has not been officially released. But the Pokemon Go fever has infected gamers in this country even to remote villages. The excitement of the game made by the Japanese company was also used by people to spread issues related to certain religions.

In cyberspace, social media, information is circulating that Pokemon means "I am Jewish". According to the information that went viral, Pokemon came from the Syriac language or Syriac language. Likewise with the meaning of Pikachu, one of the monster characters that must be hunted in Pokemon Go. Pikachu is said to mean "Be a Jew". Then the character Charmender means "God is Weak".

Many believe this information. In fact, Banda Aceh Mayor Illiza Saaduddin Djamal, as reported by mediaaceh.co, forbade his city residents to play this Pokemon Go game, it is haram because it means "I am Jewish".

Pokemon is a franchise from Japan. It stands for pocket monsters, in Japanese it is called Poketto Monsuta. Named Pocket Monsters, because it can be put in a Pocket Ball or pocket.

While the monster characters in this game are also adopted from the Japanese language.

A netizen gave the meaning of a number of characters in Pokemon Go. Pikachu comes from the words 'pika' (electric sound in Japanese) and 'chuu' (rat)

Charmander (this is correct, not charmender), his real Japanese name is 'hitokage', from the words hito (person) and 'tokage' (lizard). Then it was translated into English as Charmander, from the words 'Char' (charcoal), 'man' (person), and 'salamander' (lizard) because they were designed in the form of a lizard standing on two legs.

Wikipedia mentions Pokémon (????) is a media franchise owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995. Initially, Pokémon was a video game series that was identical to the Game Boy console.

The Los Angeles Times on April 24, 2001 then published an article about Pokemon that disturbed Muslims, especially those inhabiting the Middle East such as in Qatar, Dubai, Oman to Egypt.

Still according to the LA Times, Mohammed Abu Laila, a professor at Al Azhar University, said that until then there was no solid evidence that confirmed the rumors that Pokemon meant "I'm Jewish".