REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The truth behind the news of ISIS group executing an Indonesian citizen for having spread the AIDS virus could not yet be confirmed or verified, according to the Indonesian foreign ministry.

"We have tried to confirm the news about the Indonesian citizen being executed by ISIS with our embassies in Damascus and Ankara, but it could not yet be verified," foreign ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir noted here on Thursday.

British online media Daily Mail recently reported that an Indonesian citizen was executed by ISIS for allegedly having spread the AIDS virus in the group.

Until now, the Indonesian government is not yet in a position to confirm the news, he affirmed.