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JAKARTA \u2014 A Nazi-themed music video supporting a candidate in next month’s Indonesian presidential election is causing outrage at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The video, “Indonesia\u00a0Bangkit,” or “Awakening Indonesia,” is based on Queen’s “We Will Rock You.” It shows musician Ahmad\u00a0Dhani\u00a0wearing a fascist-style uniform and holding an Indonesian Garuda bird emblem that resembles the Nazis’ imperial eagle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel, the military costume is similar to the uniform worn by SS commander Heinrich Himmler.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The video was uploaded on YouTube as a campaign song for\u00a0Prabowo\u00a0Subianto, a former army general who has been accused of abducting pro-democracy activists in 1998 and instigating deadly riots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Brian May, Queen’s lead guitarist, has waded into the controversy, saying “of course this is completely unauthorized by us.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Asvi\u00a0Warman\u00a0Adam, a noted historian from the Indonesian Science Institute, said the video defiles Indonesia’s state symbol, the Garuda bird.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It is clear that Indonesia’s Constitution opposes all kinds of fascism as done by Nazis in the past,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Joshua Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated director of the documentary “The Act of Killing,” about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across Indonesia in 1965-66 in the name of fighting communism, said the video “is not a clever foreign policy move for\u00a0Prabowo, unless he really wants to alienate all of Europe \u2014 and the rest of the human community.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He added, however, that given\u00a0Prabowo’s\u00a0background, “perhaps he doesn’t care.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In an interview with American journalist Allan\u00a0Nairn\u00a0in 2001,\u00a0Prabowo\u00a0said Indonesia needed an “authoritarian regime” and indicated he was willing to be called a “fascist dictator.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The July 9 election pits\u00a0Prabowo\u00a0against Jakarta Gov.\u00a0Joko\u00a0Widodo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Supporters of each candidate created campaign songs for them.\u00a0Prabowo\u00a0posted the video on his Facebook page and thanked\u00a0Dhani\u00a0and other artists for their support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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