Ria Ricis, who has 30.8 million subscribers on her YouTube channel Ricis Officer, often posts content about raising her daughter Moana.
On January 1, she posted a video on YouTube a couple of jet ski trip she went on along with her daughter and husband Teuku Ryan. In the YouTube clips, Moana is wearing a life jacket, but in a further video that Ricis posted to her Instagram account, Ryan holds Moana in a single hand and controls the jet ski with the opposite. The video received over 1 million views.
On January 2, the YouTuber shared a clip of the ride on Instagram with a caption in Indonesian: “Moana likes to ride her jet ski.”
While Moana may very well be seen wearing a life jacket in a few of the jet ski ride clips on the YouTuber’s vlog, the infant wasn’t wearing one in Rica’s Instagram post.
Many comments on the post, written in Indonesian but translated via the app, expressed concern concerning the YouTuber’s actions.
Rica’s Instagram video clips were reposted by other users to Twitter, where they went viral, receiving thousands and thousands of views and attracting increasing negative attention from commenters who wrote mostly in Indonesian.
“At least wear a life jacket. A child is the most precious treasure you have in the world. What if you fall and get hit by a jet ski fan?” – said one in all the commentators.
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“I think the stupidest people are people who ride motorcycles with children. It’s a jet ski, my god,” one other user said.
Other users said they didn’t think people should judge how other people select to lift their children.
“Leave them alone. They have the best to do whatever they need. I wish all of them one of the best,” one Twitter user wrote in English.
According to many jet ski web sites, there aren’t any laws prohibiting parents from taking their child on a jet ski, but most jet ski manufacturers’ guidelines recommend that each one passengers have the option to soundly reach the vehicle’s foot floor with each feet.
Ria Ricis didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
