TL;dr: Jakarta Is Coming.https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1282846315970465793 …
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I've never heard this either and I know Indonesia well (though I am not Indonesian). So it refers to Gestapu I assume, and the aftermath? In other words, massive violent reactionary upheaval? Strange this would be on the Brazilian consciousness enough to be such an expression.
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"Jakarta is coming" was painted on the walls of Santiago de Chile in 72-73 during the presidency of Salvador Allende: https://tirto.id/penulis-jakarta-method-anti-komunisme-fanatik-kini-berkuasa-lagi-fziz …, while "Operation Jakarta" was the Brazilian (perhaps informal) name for an anticommunist extermination program at the same time 1/2
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Brazilian and Chilean right-wing movements were collaborating heavily in those years so it probably wasn't a coincidence they were using "Jakarta" to mean the same thing. And in English:https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-the-codeword-for-us-backed-mass-killing/ …
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