No, these are not video clips of a parade to welcome opposition candidate Prabowo Subianto’s visit to Indonesia’s Bandung

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Published on February 20, 2019 at 03:15
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By AFP Indonesia

A Facebook post that has been shared tens of thousands of times contains two video clips it claims show a parade of supporters welcoming Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to the city of Bandung. The claim is false, the videos show two different events neither of which was in Bandung.

The December 21, 2018 post contains two videos which have been watched nearly four million times. One clip shows a huge crowd and a street parade, the other clip shows a packed auditorium of people cheering.

“The parade to welcome Mr. Prabowo in Bandung. There is no single media reported this event,” the caption of the post, which has been shared 63,000 times, says.

Screenshot of the misleading post.

Subianto is the sole challenger of incumbent president Joko Widodo in Indonesia’s April elections.

According to a keyframes analysis using digital verification tool InVid, AFP found that the videos do show Subianto’s political activities. But they do not show a parade of his supporters in Bandung.

The first video combines two clips showing the same event, a walk held by Subianto’s party Gerindra in the Indonesian capital Jakarta in 2017 as part of its campaign for Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan’s election bid that year.

The first section of the first video has been taken from this clip posted by Gerindra politician Sufmi Dasco Ahmad showing the Jakarta walk on the city’s Asia Afrika Street on Sunday, April 9, which some 65,000 volunteers attended.

“The event featured the Canka Garuda Yaksa drum band group and was also attended by Mr. Prabowo Subianto,” the post says.

The first video starts from 0:37 minute of Ahmad’s Facebook clip.

Screenshots of the first section of the misleading video (left) and the genuine video from Sufmi Dasco Ahmad (right).

The second part of the misleading post’s first clip, running from 1:24 to the end of the footage, was taken from this Facebook video posted by the Canka Garuda Yaksa drum band group on April 15, 2017.

Screenshots of the second section of the misleading video (left) and the genuine video from Canka Garuda Yaksa (right).

The second video shows Gerindra’s national party conference which was held on December 17, 2018, in Sentul, a town near Jakarta.

Footage of the event, from which the second video was taken in part, can be seen here on the official YouTube channel of Indonesian news outlet Kumparan.

Screenshots of the second misleading video (left) and the YouTube video from Kumparan (right).

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