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- 1US taxpayers funded Indonesian anti-communist propaganda and genocide, post claims▼American taxpayers funded Indonesian anti-communist propaganda and the genocide of alleged communists, as well as the pe
A widely shared social media post alleges that American taxpayer money financed anti-communist propaganda in Indonesia, supporting the mass killings of alleged communists in the 1960s and the persecution of Chinese-Indonesians through the late 1990s. The author, writing as an Indonesian, asks what other harm US funding has caused in their homeland. Historians have long documented US political and propaganda support for the Indonesian army during the 1965-66 massacres.