Clips of Indonesia protests misrepresented as Nepal demonstrations

Demonstrations led by young people in Nepal in early September have ousted his government and left several key buildings of the burned government, but a compilation of clips does not show damage after the troubles. The images actually come from mass manifestations in Indonesia at the end of August.

“The results of the tyrannical government” reads the Facebook message in Burmese published on September 10, 2025.

The compilation video was viewed more than 120,000 times and shows scenes from a building delicately decorated on fire, demonstrators in front of a closed building and various scenes from a damaged city from a motorcycle.

We can hear a voice saying: “The youth of Nepal argued today that the ruins of these buildings are the faults of a corrupt government which governs the country in tyranny.”

The video was shared with similar claims on Facebook and Tiktok after demonstrations in Nepal were triggered with a ban on social media ended angry with government corruption on September 8 (archived link).

The troubles, the worst in the country since the civil war and the abolition of the monarchy in 2008, left at least 72 dead, the Parliament and the main government buildings have burned and ousted its veteran Prime Minister.

Former Chief Sushila Karki, 73, was sworn in as an acting Prime Minister on September 12, responsible for going to Nepal in the elections within six months.

However, a combination of keywords and reverse image research on Google has revealed that circulating clips come from Indonesian mass protests from weeks earlier.

The demonstrations at the end of August were triggered by low wages, unemployment and anger against the sumptuous advantages of legislators, but increased after the spread of a paramilitary police vehicle on a delivery motorcycle driver (archived link).

The riots that followed, which, according to the rights defense groups, left at least 10 dead and hundreds of detainees, were the greatest of the presidency of Prabowo Sub -anto and the ex-general now calls on the public to restore their confidence in his government.

Protest clips in Indonesia

The first clip of a fire building was published by the online Indonesian portal Suara NTB on its official Facebook page on August 30, 2025 (archived link).

“Mass demonstration in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Building reproduced from the Representative Council of the province (DPRD) on Saturday (30/8/2025). The fire can be seen engulfing the DPRD building in Udayana Street, Mataram City. Some parts of the building seem to be burned,” said the video language of the video of the video.

The scene corresponds to the imagery of Google Street View of the local government building in the city of Mataram on the island of Lombok in Indonesia (archived link).

The second clip of demonstrators beating the ground with the branches corresponds to a tiktok video published on September 1, with Indonesian legends reading “the demonstration of Kebumen 24 hours” (archived link). Kebumen is a city in the central province of Java in Indonesia.

The 8 -second brand of the video shows a smoking building, which corresponds to the city parliament building and can be seen on Google Maps Street View (archived link).

The latest series of damaged infrastructure clips was found on Tiktok shared on August 31, weeks before the start of Nepal events (archived link). The Indonesian message reading in the language indicates “quickly recovering my country”.

The video was taken along Jendral Sudirman Road in the capital Jakarta and shows various monuments and bus stops, which can be seen on Google Maps Street View Images (archived here, and here).

The entrance to the headquarters of the mobile jakarta police brigade and the surrounding areas can also be seen at the 15 -second brand of the Tiktok video (archived link).