The Dyslexic Lyricist

2/8/2025

Just a few hours ago the government of Indonesia considered raising The Strawhat jolly roger as a punishable crime, nearing our country's independence day. As context, people have been using the jolly roger as a symbol of dissatisfaction to the country's injustice. We've been raising this flag in protests and lately, as our Independence day tradition, people have been putting up the jolly roger in place of our national flag. The government sees this as a form of rebellion and the people trying to erase the influence of "Merah Putih", our red and white national flag and have considered wanting to take legal actions against the people who raised the jolly roger.

The people of the local community have started to use a modified version of the jolly roger that used our 80th independence anniversary logo as a form of sarcasm.

Here is a video proofing the locals have been using the flag to express our dissatisfaction towards the government

I will also link several tweets made by trusted local news anchor, tweets in english that explained the whole situation, and a tweet from Pew, a well known One Piece account in the One Piece Twitter.

Tweet from Tempo, a local news anchor (in Indonesian) :

Tweet and news from Kompas, a local news anchor (in Indonesian) :

A thread by Lembaga Baku Hantam, a local community explaining the situation in English:

And a tweet by Pew: