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  • 2019-03-04 (xsd:date)
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  • No, this photo does not show the Indonesian president's son wearing a T-shirt with a communist symbol on it (en)
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  • An image shared thousands of times on Facebook purports to show the youngest son of Indonesian president Joko Widodo wearing a T-shirt with a hammer-and-sickle symbol. This claim is false; the photo has been doctored from an original showing him in a plain black T-shirt. This Facebook post, published on February 26, 2019, and since shared around 2,500 times, contains a photo showing Widodo's son Kaesang Pangarep sitting next to his older brother Gibran Rakabuming. Pangarep appears to be wearing a black T-shirt with a gold design on the left-hand side depicting a communist hammer-and-sickle. The post's caption says: I’m sorry, I just want to ask: whose son is he??? How dare he wear a shirt with a PKI symbol? PKI refers to Indonesia's communist party, which was banned in 1965 after it was blamed for a failed coup. Here is an AFP article from 2017 about anti-communist purges that followed that event. Here is a screenshot of the misleading post: Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post A reverse image search found that the image in the Facebook post had been doctored from an original photo used in this report published by online news site detik.com on January 10, 2019. In the original photo, Pangarep is wearing a plain black T-shirt with no hammer-and-sickle design. The headline of the detik.com article, translated into English, says: When Jokowi's sons join the conversation about Nurhadi-Aldo. Jokowi is a nickname for Widodo and the report was on social media comments made by his sons over a controversy in Indonesia about upcoming elections. The photo was attributed to the site and its reporter called Dyah Paramita Saraswati. Below is a screenshot of the Detik.com report: Screenshot of detik.com report Widodo is running for a second term in Indonesian elections to be held in April. Here is a recent AFP report related to next month's polls. The president has been subject to multiple allegations that he has links to Indonesia's defunct communist party. He has repeatedly rejected the claims. Here is a fact-check previously carried out by AFP on a doctored picture purporting to show the president attending a PKI event. (en)
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