The Istiqlal Mosque Management Agency (BPPMI) straightened the information circulating on social media regarding the closing of the gates for visitors the night before the 212 Action. According to the Secretary of BPPMI KH Rusli Effendi, his party since 2002 has enforced rules to close all gates every night at 21.30 WIB and reopened at 03.40 WIB before the Fajr prayer. "All pilgrims are not allowed to stay in the mosque area except under certain conditions and with permission from the security forces and the leadership of BPPMI," said Rusli in Jakarta, Tuesday (21/2).

Regarding the conditions at night from 20 to the early hours of February 21, the security of the Istiqlal Mosque had explained to the congregation (participants of the 212 action) who had gathered in the mosque's courtyard about the procedure. "They understand and are willing to leave the mosque area," he said.

According to Rusli, BPPMI did not receive notification from any party regarding the plans for the congregation to stay overnight as in the previous conditions when Muslims held 411, 212 or 112 actions. There was also no special communication from the authorities regarding this matter.

"The Istiqlal Mosque is always devoted to the people and strives for national unity and unity and always maintains the comfort of worship. We urge all Muslims not to be influenced by news that cannot be accounted for," he concluded. , there are pictures circulating in cyberspace, especially on social media, which report that the Istiqlal Mosque is closed with a padlock and given barbed wire, so that the masses who will take part in the action cannot enter and sleep on the streets.

The head of the Protocol Section for the Istiqlal Mosque, Abu Hurairah, immediately denied the accusation, and declared it a hoax. Because, according to Hurairah, his party has never banned the action and has never locked the door of the mosque.

"A thousand percent hoax," said Abu when contacted by reporters on Tuesday (21/2).

Then after the hoax image was circulated, two more images of police (snipers) holding weapons were circulated, where one was at a bus stop spying on the highway and the other was in a room spying on the DPR building.

Not only that, the two edited images (pictures of police snipers) have metamorphosed into meme images. The two images were combined with the hoax image of the locking of the Istiqlal Mosque for the masses of the 212th Volume II Action.

The image is edited and arranged vertically (top-bottom). In the image above, it is captioned: "The door of the Istiqlal mosque is locked and barbed wire." Meanwhile, in the lower image, it is captioned: "Snipers are prepared in the capitol building. Oh God, are we already considered enemies in our own country?"

The question is, is the information in the image below true?

If you pay attention to the issue of the locking of the Istiqlal mosque which has been declared a hoax, it is not impossible that the picture (police sniper) was also a hoax. Moreover, from the circulating photos, there is no real evidence to show that the sniper police were stalking the masses of action.

This case is similar to the issue that had circulated some time before the 411 action was held at the end of 2016. At that time, the police were also accused of the same thing: they would prepare snipers to secure the action.

Responding to this, the Head of Public Relations of the Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Pol. Awi Setiyono emphasized that his party would not deploy snipers or snipers during the 411 action related to the alleged blasphemy committed by Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok.

"Nothing, nothing," said Awi at the Metro Jaya Police Headquarters, Thursday, November 3, 2016.