by Alya Nurbaiti

Vlogger Ferdian Paleka has been arrested after posting a YouTube video of him and his friend apparently pulling a "prank" on transwomen by giving them fake staple food donations in the form of boxes containing garbage.

Ferdian, whose video met a chorus of condemnation from members of the public, was apprehended by the West Java police on the Tangerang-Merak toll road on Friday.

West Java Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Saptono Erlangga said that after a four-day manhunt and monitoring Ferdian’s father, the police learned that the father planned to pick up Ferdian and his cocreator friend, identified only as A, at Merak Port in Banten, upon returning from his hideout in Palembang, South Sumatra.

“His father, H, and his uncle, J, picked them up at the port. We then followed them and managed to arrest them on the toll road,” Saptono said on Friday as quoted by kompas.com.

He added that the police would also question both Ferdian's father and uncle.

Last week, the vlogger uploaded a video in which he and his friend Tubagus Fahddinar claimed they were going to give out "aid packages" in the form of instant noodle boxes that actually contained bricks and garbage for people whom they called bencong, a pejorative Indonesian term for transwomen, in West Java's provincial capital of Bandung. Read more via Jakarta Post