Indonesia’s residents have shown hostility and resistance against the arrival of more Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, who have fled persecution and violence in their homeland.
The residents have staged protests, attacked shelters, and demanded the deportation of the refugees, who they perceive as a burden and a threat to their communities.
The negative attitude of the residents towards the Rohingya refugees is partly influenced by Myanmar’s disinformation campaign, which has spread false and misleading information about the Rohingya crisis, and has attempted to justify and cover up its human rights abuses.
Myanmar‘s disinformation campaign is a systematic and coordinated effort by the Myanmar military and its supporters to manipulate and distort the facts and the narratives of the Rohingya crisis, which has resulted in the displacement of over one million Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state since 2016. The campaign, which mainly uses social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, aims to:
Myanmar’s disinformation campaign has influenced Indonesia’s rejection of the Rohingya refugees in several ways, such as:
Myanmar’s disinformation campaign, therefore, has played a role in shaping and influencing Indonesia’s rejection of the Rohingya refugees, who have been denied and deprived of their basic rights and dignity. The campaign has also contributed to the perpetuation and the escalation of the Rohingya crisis, which poses a threat to the peace and the stability of the region and the world.
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