Corrections Policy
We get things wrong. Not often, we hope, but a small desk covering a country of thousands of islands will eventually misread a budget line or convert a rupiah figure at last month’s rate. This page says what happens then.
Last updated: August 2026.
Three words, used precisely
A correction means we published something factually wrong: a wrong number, a wrong name, the wrong regency, a claim attributed to the wrong agency. A clarification means the facts were right but our wording let a reader take away something untrue, usually because we compressed a sentence too far. An update means the story itself has moved, through new information, a response that arrived after publication, or an official figure revised upward.
We keep the three apart because collapsing them is how a newsroom quietly relabels its mistakes as developments. A death toll revised by the disaster agency is an update. Our own arithmetic error on the same story is a correction, and the note on it says so in those words.
The note stays on the story
Corrections are made in the original article, at its original address, with a dated note attached to it. The note says what the story said before, what it says now, and when we changed it. It does not say “this story has been updated” and leave you to work out which part moved.
We do not silently edit a published piece. Where the error was in the headline, the note says the headline was wrong and gives the old wording, because the headline is the part most people saw. A corrected story keeps its address so links to it keep working, and nothing about the correction is hidden from search.
Serious errors, and typos
A material error, meaning one that changes what a reasonable reader would understand or believe, always gets a visible note. That covers numbers, names, dates, quotes, the order in which things happened, and anything that touched somebody’s reputation. Where readers may have acted on what we published, an evacuation radius or a school closure list, the note goes at the top of the story rather than the foot.
Spelling, punctuation, a broken link and a wrongly cropped photograph are fixed without a note, because a log of every repaired typo buries the corrections that matter. Which side of that line something falls on is decided by an editor, not by the person who made the mistake. When we cannot agree, we write the note.
Telling us we got it wrong
Write to support@wisatahits.blog with CORRECTION at the front of the subject line. Send the link, quote the sentence you think is wrong, and say what it should say instead. If you can point us at something we can check ourselves, the original Indonesian document rather than a summary of it, this goes much faster.
We aim to acknowledge a report within one working day and to have checked it within two, Jakarta hours, longer around Idul Fitri when the country reasonably stops. Anything urgent about safety, health or a legal matter is looked at the same day. If we conclude the story was right, we write back and explain why. You do not have to be the subject of a story to report an error in it.
The copies that already left
The article is not the only copy of it. We go back to our own posts on the platforms where we shared the story and either correct them, reply with the correction where a post cannot be edited, or delete one whose entire claim was wrong. Where the error went out in the newsletter, the correction runs in the next send, near the top and not in a footer.
Where another publisher has taken the piece under licence, or an aggregator is carrying it, we write to them and ask them to pull the corrected version. Sites that scraped us without asking cannot be made to update, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we control is our own version of the record, and that one stays accurate.
We correct rather than delete
Requests to unpublish arrive most weeks, often from a company that dislikes a court story, sometimes with a figure attached. Removing accurate reporting because somebody paid or pressed for it is not something we do, and taking a story down is not a substitute for fixing it. If our reporting was wrong, a correction that admits it serves a reader better than a dead link.
There are narrow cases where we will remove or amend. A legal order we are bound by. Material identifying a child, a victim of sexual violence, or a source whose safety has changed since publication. A piece so wrong at its foundation that no correction can rescue it, where the address keeps a note explaining why the story is gone. Each of those decisions is recorded internally with its reason, and our terms of service cover the legal side of complaints.
Who decides, and what we keep
Correction decisions sit with our managing editor, who is not the editor who handled the story in the first place. The reporter is told and asked for their account of it, but nobody rules on whether their own piece was wrong. When a correction concerns an advertiser, the commercial side is not consulted about whether to run it, and our editorial standards explain why that wall exists.
We keep an internal record of every significant correction: the story, the error, what caused it, the date. Patterns are the point of keeping it. Two of ours turned into standing rules, including the one that says we read the original Indonesian statement instead of an English aggregator’s version, which came out of an evacuation radius we got wrong early on. Our fact-checking policy describes the checks meant to catch these before publication.
