REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Republika's live streaming of a Palestinian protest rally held in Monas, Central Jakarta, was banned from social media app Tiktok. TikTok claimed the live stream contained hate speech.

Republika.co.id conducted a live stream to cover a peaceful protest for Palestine in Jakarta through its TikTok account on Sunday (5/11/2023). However, the live streaming only lasted a while because after that it was banned by Tiktok.

TikTok has said that the unilateral termination was due to the content was considered a violation. “(The live streaming was considered as) Hate Speech. You can return to multi-guest access and broadcast live on November 12, 2023 at 9:09pm,” the Tiktok statement read.

Republika regrets the banning because the live streaming covered a peaceful pro-Palestine rally at Monas, Central Jakarta, today. The Editor-in-Chief of Republika Elba Damhuri said Tiktok failed to understand the meaning of hate speech with the struggle against denuclearization, colonization, and genocide in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

“The mass actions that took place in Indonesia were also held in many countries, from New York, USA, to London, England. Their demands are the same: stop genocide, create peace, and (support) for Palestinian independence,” Elba said.

Thousands of marchers voice all forms of struggle in defense of justice and truth, safeguarding human dignity, and protecting the entire people. Those demands are not a form of hate speech. The action became a global solidarity movement, the core of the democracy movement, and the civil society movement defending humanity.

This action is clearly not an act of defending one religion or ethnicity. It's a humanitarian action against the sadistic crimes against humanity that continue to take place in the Gaza Strip. “This is global action against the most cruel humanitarian crime that has ever occurred on the earth,” he said.

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