JAKARTA: Arriving on a rickety boat in western Indonesia from squalid camps in Bangladesh after weeks at sea late last year, hundreds of Rohingya refugees came to shore only to be turned around and pushed back. On TikTok, dozens of fake UNHCR accounts have flooded Rohingya videos with comments. Ismail Fahmi, analyst for social media monitor Drone Emprit, told AFP the narrative "seems coordinated" but presented as if "it was organic." Locals say social media is making such anti-Rohingya sentiment appear widespread, but that was not reflected across Aceh from day to day. "It seems massive when we observe it on social media," said Aceh fishermen community secretary-general Azwir Nazar, acknowledging that Rohingya defenders online were treated as a "common enemy."
