No, this TV news clip did not report an Indonesian presidential survey in which results totalled more than 100 percent

The posts, including this December 9 entry, have been shared thousands of times.

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Snapshot of the misleading post.

The bar chart purportedly shows a survey done by Jakarta-based pollster LSI, claiming Widodo, better known as Jokowi, and his running mate, Ma’ruf Amin, had 98.22 percent support.

The image claims the pair’s sole challengers in 2019 elections, Prabowo Subianto and running mate Sandiaga Uno, had 1.81 percent support.

It said 0.1 percent of respondents were either undecided or did not give a choice.

The text in the post above translates as:

“If you want to lie, please use your brain!!! 98.22 + 1.81 + 0.1 = 100.13%? So how can you get the 0.13 percent??? There’s another one: the bar for Prabowo says his figure is 1.81%, but how can it be smaller that the bar for 0.1% of undecided voters? Where’s your brain? A giant TV station like you only does what the leader wants and is unable to independently decide what news to report.”

The image was also shared to this Facebook group that supports Subianto, whose camp has publicly said it had boycotted Metro TV for “biased and disadvantageous reporting” on the candidate.

Here is an article on the claims by Subianto’s camp of boycotting Metro TV.

Metro TV is owned by Surya Paloh, a media-mogul-cum-politician who is backing Widodo in the coming election.

Some of the comments on the false posts branded Metro TV deceitful. A translation of the comment in the screenshot below from one of the posts is: “Stupid TV station. Don’t watch it .. Deceitful.. deceitful.”

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Snapshot of one of the comments of the post.

Google Reverse Image results showed the misleading photo was a manipulated version of a genuine report by Metro TV. The broadcaster uploaded a video of it on August 21, 2018.

The chart can be seen at 0:47 of the video, which is headlined: “Latest survey: Jokowi-Ma’ruf leads by a big margin”.

The genuine results showed  Widodo had 52.2 percent support, with Subianto at 29.5 percent and 18.3 percent undecided or not giving a response.

Below are the comparison between the doctored image and a snapshot from the news report clip.

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Snapshot of the original video (left) and the misleading image in the Facebook post (right).

Here are links to reports from Indonesian news outlets Detik and Kompas on the actual LSI survey.