Claims made by or about officials, parties and institutions, each with the verdict of a credible fact checker or official data. Quotes are what circulated, not what is true; read the facts beside them.
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248 checked claims
What is circulating
“Human Rights Minister Natalius Pigai demanded the total withdrawal of TNI troops from Papua.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
Kompas found no such statement by Pigai, and the post wrongly labelled him as Komnas HAM, an independent commission separate from his ministry. It was Komnas HAM, after visiting Central Papua in October 2025, that recommended a gradual withdrawal of non-organic troops.
What is circulating
“Defending the national hero title for Suharto on 5 November 2025, Culture Minister Fadli Zon said there was never any proof that Suharto was involved in the 1965 to 1966 mass killings.”
Claimed by Fadli Zon, Culture Minister · official statement
The facts
No court has tried the case, but historical research documents the army's role under Suharto's command. Historian Jess Melvin's study of nearly 3,000 pages of military archives from Aceh shows a chain of command from Suharto through the Sumatra commander down to district level in operations to annihilate people accused of being communists.
What is circulating
“In a Fox News interview, Vance said "we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants" and blamed them for high housing costs.”
Claimed by JD Vance · official statement
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Mostly False. Estimates put the unauthorized immigrant population at 12 to 14 million as of 2023, less than half his figure. Experts point mainly to a shortage of about 4.7 million homes and to higher interest rates; one estimate found immigration adds under half a percent to home prices.
What is circulating
“State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi announced a cabinet reshuffle that removed Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa as Finance Minister.”
Claimed by Facebook video posts · social media
The facts
Kompas found the narrative untrue in November 2025: no announcement removing Purbaya had been made, and the video did not show one.
What is circulating
“Ponorogo Regent Sugiri Sancoko, arrested by the KPK, said Jokowi received a Rp280 billion fee in the case.”
Claimed by Facebook posts sharing a doctored headline · social media
The facts
Sugiri was arrested by the KPK on 7 November 2025 and named a suspect in a bribery case, but the screenshot of a news headline about Jokowi was manipulated; no such article exists on the cited site. Kompas rated it a hoax.
What is circulating
“Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Facebook that the Thai-Cambodian Joint Boundary Commission meeting of 21 and 22 October 2025 agreed to use the 1:200,000 scale map to set a temporary border line.”
Claimed by Hun Manet · official statement
The facts
The Thai Prime Minister's Office said no agreement on map scale was made, and the minutes published by Thailand's Foreign Ministry do not mention the 1:200,000 map. They record agreement to rebuild 15 damaged or missing markers, place temporary survey markers between markers 42 and 47, and revise the 2003 terms of reference using LiDAR mapping. Thai PBS Verify rated the claim misinformation; the two governments' readings of the meeting differ.
What is circulating
“Pita Limjaroenrat said he would cut civil servants' pensions, calling them a 'sick elephant budget' that does not benefit the public.”
Claimed by TikTok account tata8.1 · social media
The facts
The quote recycles a 2022 falsehood. Pita's budget speech of 31 May 2022 used 'sick elephant' for a budget structure in which recurring spending exceeded 75 percent, and he stated in writing on 7 June 2022 that there would be no pension cuts, a denial repeated in 2023 and 2025. The October 2025 post had about 569,500 views.
What is circulating
“Posts in October 2025 said Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi created a "Ministry for Mass Deportations" as her first move, quoting her as saying "We are sending them all home, remigration."”
Claimed by Facebook posts in Australia and New Zealand · social media
The facts
AAP FactCheck rated the claim False: no such ministry has been created, and Takaichi's basic policy and first-day statement did not mention immigration or deportation. The video shows Economic Security Minister Kimi Onoda, whose portfolio on coexistence with foreign nationals was set up in July 2025 under former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and experts found no record of Takaichi using the word "remigration."
What is circulating
“During the 2025 government shutdown, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said on 30 October 2025 that the federal government "decided to shut down the SNAP machines, so that they can't be used."”
Claimed by JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois · official statement
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim False. There are no separate SNAP machines; recipients pay with the same card terminals other shoppers use, and a USDA notice said benefits received before 1 November could still be spent. The USDA had said it would halt November payments for about 42 million recipients, but after a court ruling it said a $4.65 billion contingency fund would cover 50 percent of benefits.
What is circulating
“On NBC's "Meet the Press" on 26 October 2025, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said: "Overall, the inflation since President Trump" took office "has come down."”
Claimed by Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary · news report
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Half True. Headline consumer price inflation was 3 percent in September 2025, up from 2.9 percent in December 2024, while core inflation eased from 3.2 percent to 3 percent. Some prices such as eggs and gasoline fell, while electricity and groceries rose, and analysts said seven months was too short to judge.
What is circulating
“House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries posted on X on 23 October 2025: "The Trump administration just declared that erecting a ballroom is the president's main priority."”
Claimed by Hakeem Jeffries · social media
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim False. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt was answering a question about other construction projects on the White House grounds when she said the ballroom was "really the president's main priority," an answer that began "Not to my knowledge, no." The five second clip that circulated left out that context, which changed the meaning.
What is circulating
“Hosting "The Charlie Kirk Show" on 15 October 2025, Vance said: "Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left."”
Claimed by JD Vance · official statement
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Mostly False. A CSIS study found left-wing attacks outnumbered right-wing ones in the first half of 2025, but that rested on four attacks and one plot, and right-wing attacks outpaced left-wing ones for the previous 30 years. Over the past decade, left-wing attacks killed 13 people compared with 112 killed by right-wing attackers.
What is circulating
“Finance Minister Purbaya is pulling Rp71 trillion from the free meals programme (MBG) and diverting it to rice aid because of poisoning cases.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
Purbaya did say he would reallocate unabsorbed MBG funds to other programmes such as 10 kg rice aid, but only if spending stayed low by the end of October 2025, and framed it as budget absorption, not a response to poisoning. As of 3 October 2025 the agency had spent Rp21.64 trillion, 34 percent of its allocation, and the funds had not been withdrawn.
What is circulating
“A video shows Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin announcing free vehicle ownership transfers, free vehicle tax and free number plates until the end of 2025.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
The footage is from a TVRI broadcast of Sjafrie's press statement at the Presidential Office on 31 August 2025, where he reported on a cabinet meeting about the riots in Jakarta. He did not mention vehicle taxes or ownership transfers.
What is circulating
“Finance Minister Purbaya said the real price of Pertalite fuel is only Rp4,000 a litre even though it is sold at Rp10,000.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
The Finance Ministry stated on 16 October 2025 that the quote was a hoax. In a DPR hearing on 30 September 2025 Purbaya said Pertalite's economic price was Rp11,700 a litre, with the state covering Rp1,700 so consumers pay Rp10,000.
What is circulating
“"We have fed 35.4 million people... that is almost seven times Singapore," Prabowo said of the free meals programme (MBG) at the Forbes Global CEO Conference on 15 October 2025.”
Claimed by Prabowo Subianto, President · official statement
The facts
The 35.4 million figure matched the latest recipient data. But Singapore's population was 6.11 million in June 2025, so seven times would be 42.77 million; 35.4 million is about 5.8 times Singapore's population.
What is circulating
“Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at a press conference in Gary, Indiana: "There's no American citizens have been arrested or detained."”
Claimed by Kristi Noem · official statement
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Pants on Fire, its lowest rating. Lawsuits, news reports and DHS statements contradicted it, and ProPublica documented 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents nationwide. Agents made more than 3,000 arrests during Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago area.
What is circulating
“During the 2025 government shutdown, Johnson posted on X that "Democrats want hospitals (to be) paid MORE to treat illegal aliens than American citizens."”
Claimed by Mike Johnson · social media
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim False. The Democratic proposal would restore federal emergency care funding to its previous level, not pay hospitals more for undocumented patients; the Republican law had cut the federal share for some noncitizens from 90% to roughly 50% to 77%. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for regular Medicaid, and emergency Medicaid was under 1% of Medicaid spending in fiscal 2023.
What is circulating
“National Assembly deputy Duong Khac Mai proposed fines of up to $1,180 for married people who go out drinking after 8pm.”
Claimed by TikTok account · social media
The facts
The TikTok video, uploaded on 1 September 2025, paired edited footage of Mai speaking in the National Assembly with a fabricated caption. Mai, vice head of the Lam Dong delegation, called it slander and a total fabrication and reported it to provincial police and the Ministry of Public Security, which opened an investigation. The clip passed one million views.
What is circulating
“A photo shows former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in prison with a shaved head, full-body tattoos and a prison uniform.”
Claimed by Threads user · social media
The facts
The image is AI-generated: detection tools flagged it, and the face matches a Thai PBS report photo of 18 June. The Department of Corrections said it does not release inmate images. Thaksin is serving a one-year sentence at Klong Prem Central Prison after a Supreme Court ruling in the 14th Floor case, but the picture does not show any real prison scene.
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