Dewi Sukarno

Mrs. Dewi is Sukarno’s fourth wife. Sukarno was the first President of Indonesia and was committed to the struggle for national independence. From Wikipedia, “Sukarno organised the Bandung Conference in 1955, with the goal of uniting the developing Asian and African countries into the Non-Aligned Movement to counter both the United States and the Soviet Union”. He was overthrown by the later President Suharto in 1965, who discriminated against Chinese-Indonesians, “creating a systematic cultural genocide” (Wikipedia).

From comments that day, many netizens were misled to think Sukarno and Mrs. Dewi were responsible for the genocide, confusing him with Suharto. This confusion was exacerbated by edits made on Dewi Sukarno's Baidupedia page on August 13 by top level editors, changing the name of her husband from Sukarno to Suharto and indicating that she was anti-China and aligned with Japanese right-wing persons. References to her friendship with North Korea (a country allied with China) and her actions against Japanese right-wing were deleted. The change was made by a member of the Baidu Kedou team.

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  Dewi Sukarno's page before and after editing

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  Edit history of Dewi Sukarno's page

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  Netizens attacking ZZH over his association with Dewi Sukarno

A photo of Zhang Zhehan and Mrs. Dewi was used to claim that they were close associates. Zhang himself in his interview with Li Xuezheng clarified that he did not know Mrs. Dewi personally and did not in fact know who she was on the day of the wedding. She was introduced to him as a person in the entertainment industry and he agreed to take a photo with her out of respect for her age.

This is also apparent in Mrs. Dewi's own blog post about the wedding, in which she did not know Zhang's name and criticized his informal attire

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