Footage of a road traffic officer in Indonesia stopping oncoming cars and motorcycles to let a cat cross the road is going viral.

Posted by the Polres Muba Instagram account, the footage shows an officer, named as Brigadier Satria, guiding the cat across a busy street in Sekayu, a district in Musi Banyuasin, not once but twice, as his colleague Bripka Silaean films the scene.

Polres Muba is an information arm of police in the region. The footage, and a number of reposts of it, have gone viral with the original post earning 2,280 likes at time of writing. Credit: Polres Muba via Storyful