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A video falsely claiming to show Indonesian soldiers lowering a flag at a Papua New Guinea military base is circulating on social media.

The footage, however, actually shows a mining facility in the Indonesian province of Central Papua, in the western part of the island of New Guinea.


No, Indonesian soldiers didn't remove a flag from a PNG base

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May 13
No, Indonesian soldiers didn't remove a flag from a PNG base

WHAT WAS CLAIMED :A video shows Indonesian troops taking over a PNG base.


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