Indonesian YouTuber under fire for video of infant daughter on a jet ski with no life jacket
- Ria Ricis recently posted a clip online showing her husband holding their daughter in one hand while steering a personal watercraft with the other
- It sparked a debate about the child’s safety and how far the Indonesian YouTuber, who has 30.8 million subscribers, would go for views
Ria Ricis, who has 30.8 million subscribers on her YouTube channel Ricis Official, typically posts content about raising her daughter Moana.
On January 1, she posted a YouTube video about a jet ski excursion she took with her daughter and husband, Teuku Ryan. In the YouTube clips, Moana is wearing a life jacket, but in an additional video Ricis posted to her Instagram account, Ryan holds Moana in one hand while steering the jet ski with another. The video received more than 1 million views.
The YouTuber shared a clip of the ride on Instagram on January 2, with a caption in Indonesian that said “Moana loves it on a jet ski”.
While Moana could be seen wearing a life jacket in some clips of the jet ski ride in the YouTuber’s vlog, the child was not wearing one in Rici’s Instagram post.
Many comments under the post, which were written in Indonesian but were translated through the app, expressed concern over the YouTuber’s actions.