Video of Traditional Javanese Dance Goes Viral Again With False Communal Claim

The video shows a traditional dance performance named Jaranan, native to Indonesia.

An unrelated video is going viral on social media, falsely claiming to show an incident in Pakistan where a Christian girl was forced to convert to Islam after suffering sexual assault.

(Source: X/Altered by The Quint)

A video is going viral on social media, claiming to show an incident in Pakistan where a Christian girl was forced to convert to Islam after suffering sexual assault.

• One of the posts that shared the video with this claim garnered over 12 lakh views on X.

An archived version of this claim can be found here.

(Source: X/Screenshot)

(An archived version of a similar claim can be found here.)

Is it true?: No, the claim is false.

• The video shows a performance of Jaranan, a traditional Javanese dance native to Indonesia.

How did we find out?: The Quint had fact-checked the same video in September 2026 when it was shared, claiming to show a Congress-supporting girl in Ladakh being abducted from her home by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers as instructed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vinay Kumar.

The fact-check report by WebQoof on the same video. 

(Source: The Quint/ Screenshot)

• We ran a keyword search using words from the claim and found no credible sources sharing the video or any reports on it.

• Following this, we ran a reverse image search on the video using Google Lens and found a video uploaded on Instagram, carrying similar visuals.

• The video, uploaded on 29 August 2026 by Instagram user tubagusjakaa, was captioned, "Mendem Jaranan".

• We searched the keyword and found that Jaranan, or Kuda Lumping, is a traditional Javanese dance that is native to Java, Indonesia.

• The dancers ride bamboo horses and often enter a possessed or trance-like state.

• The video shows a Jaranan performance.

The original video was uploaded by an Indonesian user. 

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

• The account that uploaded the video has shared similar videos of people performing the art form.

The videos uploaded by the account.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

Conclusion: The video doesn't show communal violence and shows a performance of Jaranan, a traditional Javanese dance native to Indonesia.

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