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Anticipated US-Backed Protests in Indonesia Begin & How it fits into US Desire to Contain China
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- Jun 14, 2026
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Summary
- while protests may believe they have legitimate anger and causes, the fact that US-funded organizations are directing and promoting the protests indicates yet another case of hijacked-grievances; - The US just demanded Indonesia open its airspace to US military aircraft, a demand Indonesia rejected; - US-funded media operations in Indonesia just 2 weeks ago attacked alternative media outlets who exposed US interference last year in Indonesia as a means of "pre-bunking" attempts to expose it again ahead of protests this year they knew were coming; - The protests are enhanced by the global energy and economic crisis deliberately created by the US war on Iran in West Asia; - US control over Indonesia would threaten the Malacca Strait, further constricting Chinese maritime shipping of both imported energy and exported goods; References: New Atlas - Information Warfare: Western-Funded Media Takes More Western Money To Cover Up US Meddling (regarding US-funded Indonesian-based media information operations) (May 26, 2026): https://youtu.be/5xkRhIonmtw?si=p-AY1QwrnZT0jAlB TEMPO - Tempo Responds to Prabowo's Claims of Serving Foreign Interests (Jan. 2026): https://en.tempo.co/read/2082833/tempo-responds-to-prabowos-claims-of-serving-foreign-interests Open Society - Media Development Investment Fund: https://www.soroseconomicdevelopmentfund.org/investments/media-development-investment-fund NED - Home Page: https://www.ned.org/ Reuters - Indonesia signed letter but made no commitment to US on airspace access, defence minister says (May 2026): https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-made-no-commitment-us-airspace-access-defence-minister-says-2026-05-19/ US State Department, Office of the Historian - The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902: https://hist…