Edy Mulyadi

Edy Mulyadi (born 8 January 1966) is an Indonesian senior journalist currently active at Forum News Network (FNN), notable for criticizing Indonesia's planned new capital city, Nusantara by using inappropriate words in late January 2022. He is also currently a cadre of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), and he was originally elected to the 2019 Indonesian legislative election as a DPR candidate but failed for insufficient votes. He is also a writer at Kompasiana since 2014. FNN was notorious for its questionable reportings. Some of FNN bogus reporting are including spreading a series of fake news on finance situation in Indonesia in apparent attempt to smear national economy policies and inciting distrust and spreading false report on, later identified as hoax, on medical status of Megawati Soekarnoputri. The FNN status itself was unverified as in 2020 and 2021 by Indonesian Press Council. During his time in FNN, he made questionable stories and claims about Islamic Defenders Front followers that were shot dead by the police.

Criticism of the new capital city On 23 January 2022, Edy in a Twitter video criticizes the move to the new capital city of Nusantara while using inappropriate words:

Additionally, an advocate Azam Khan sitting next to Edy responded "only monkeys (want to live there)" while hearing Edy's speech that no one buying a new house in Gunung Sari, Penajam North Paser Regency.

As a response, numerous mass organizations in South and East Kalimantan Tifatul Sembiring, a PKS politician, originally supported Edy, but later apologized it and withdrew the support. In 31 January, Edy stated again an apology of his case at the Bareskrim Polri building in Jakarta, after the previous one in 24 January; and later he was arrested by the police that day. Edy stated in a YouTube video that he was targeted by people before being arrested, and he also said that "I will surrender to Allah".