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Two YouTubers are facing deportation in Bali after they made a prank video showing one of them violating local mask laws.
The local government reportedly confiscated the passports of Josh Paler Lin and Leia Se and they are now at risk of being forced to leave Indonesia as a result of the video.
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In the clip, she tries to enter a grocery store, but is rejected for not wearing a face mask.
Lin then paints a fake mask on her face and can walk into the store.
The video, which was posted on April 22, went viral.
Lin has 3.4 million subscribers on YouTube.
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Indonesia has been strictly enforcing its mask mandates.
The police can impose fines for the first offense and deport foreigners for the second.
Although this was Lin and Se's first known offense, the uproar around the video drew so much attention that local authorities confiscated their passports.
Lin is reportedly from Taiwan but lives in the United States, while Se (who goes by the name Lisha online) is a Russian national, according to a police statement.
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"They will be examined together with Immigration to make the decision to deport them or not," I Putu Surya Dharma, spokesperson for the regional office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in Bali, confirmed to local media.
Lin has already removed the video from her YouTube channel.
On April 24, he uploaded a video to his Instagram where he, Se, and his attorney apologize for the deception.
The video is subtitled in English and Indonesian.
"The intention of making this video was not at all to disrespect him or invite everyone not to wear a mask," says Lin.
"I make this video to entertain people because I am a content creator and my job is to entertain people."
Later, he adds: "We promise not to do it again."
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In this video they are both wearing a mask.
Meanwhile, some police officers appear to have taken a more creative approach to punishing those caught breaking the law: An Australian news channel reported that two tourists were ordered to do push-ups as punishment for removing their masks.
The authorities confirmed to the channel that they had issued 8,864 fines or infractions for non-compliance with the use of masks in Bali in a single week.
The island is very popular with foreign tourists and many chose to spend the pandemic there rather than return to their home countries.
Indonesia has had 1,651,794 diagnosed cases of the virus and around 45,000 deaths.
Bali, which is heavily reliant on tourism, had hoped to start allowing foreign visitors by September 2020, but the current virus situation so far has left the island without a firm reopening plan.
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