Papuan man uses rice sacks to carry cash withdrawn from bank, image goes viral
Photos posted on Threads showing two men in traditional Papuan dress at a bank with empty rice sacks have drawn wide attention online.
JAKARTA – An indigenous man in Indonesia's Papua region has drawn the attention of social media users after reportedly using rice storage sacks to carry a sum of cash withdrawn from a bank, news portal Lambe Turah reported.
Images uploaded on the Threads platform by the account @folkkonoha show two men in traditional Papuan attire arriving at a banking centre.
Besides wearing shorts and going barefoot, one of the men was seen carrying only several empty rice sacks.
"The rice sacks were used to store money. They did not use bags," the post said, in a translation of the original remarks.
The post subsequently became a talking point among social media users, who were struck by the unusual manner in which the cash was carried out of the bank premises.
It is still not known when the photographs were taken, or why the man was withdrawing such a large amount of money.
The report did not state the exact sum withdrawn, and the identities of the two men in the images were not disclosed.
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