Audio from an previous interview the place Indonesia’s president-elect talks about damaging campaigning from “overseas minions” resurfaced in Could 2024 posts seen hundreds of thousands of instances that falsely claimed it was from a “leaked” telephone name. The audio of Prabowo talking was lifted from a tv interview with the ex-general in 2014 shortly earlier than he was overwhelmed in an election with Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
“VIRAL!!! Prabowo Subianto’s telephone recording has been leaked,” learn Indonesian-language textual content superimposed on a TikTok video shared on Could 15, 2024.
The video — seen greater than 175,000 instances — reveals a nonetheless picture of Indonesia’s president-elect saluting, because the audio from the “leaked” recording performs.
Within the recording, Prabowo says: “So, individuals who do damaging campaigning or ‘black’ campaigning — in my view, in my feeling — there are some teams, and they’re really overseas powers’ minions.
“For them, Indonesia can’t have a robust and clear chief.”
The identical audio was utilized in different posts shared on TikTok, Facebook; and brief video platform SnackVideo here and here, collectively racking up greater than seven million views.
It circulated after Indonesia’s election fee formally declared Prabowo the following president of the world’s third-largest democracy on April 24.
Whereas he is not going to take the reins from outgoing chief Jokowi till October, worries have already been raised about Prabowo’s dedication to democracy.
An editorial in The Jakarta Post mentioned the president-elect had raised “alarm among the many public, particularly civil society” after he described democracy as “very, very tiring” and “very, very messy and dear” (archived hyperlinks here and here).
In Could, throughout an interview with Bloomberg on the Qatari Financial Discussion board, he dismissed “considerations” raised by his critics that he may clamp down on democracy, saying they have been “made up” by the press and that he had obtained the “consent” from the Indonesian individuals to rule the archipelago nation (archived link).
However the audio circulating on social media is just not a “leaked” telephone recording.
Tv interview
A key phrase search on YouTube discovered the identical audio in an interview titled “One hour nearer to Prabowo tvOne” printed on the YouTube channel “Speak Present tvOne RELOAD” on December 18, 2023 (archived link).
TV One is an Indonesian TV station.
In the course of the present’s introduction, it says “Prabowo is getting extra critical about coming into the politics by working for president within the 2014 election”.
On the time of the interview, Prabowo was running for president in opposition to Joko Widodo, who would go on to win and lead the nation for the following decade.
The audio used within the deceptive posts was lifted from the interview’s 5:10 to the 7:41 mark.
Textual content on the video signifies it was initially broadcast on September 15, 2014.
The identical interview was additionally printed on one other of the broadcaster’s YouTube channels — “tvOne Digital” — in its entirety here and in shorter segments here on March 21, 2021 (archived hyperlinks here and here).
AFP has debunked different misinformation about Prabowo here.