By Pizaro Gozali Idrus and Shailaja Neelakantan A huge crowd of students stormed a temporary shelter for Rohingya in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Wednesday demanding they be deported, in an escalation of the campaign against the refugees, a U.N. agency and local media reported. The protesters then evicted the 137 shaken-up and distressed refugees from...

The campaign against the Rohingya was fueled by misinformation and propaganda on social media platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok, where fake accounts and anti-refugee posts have gone viral.

Following Wednesday’s incident, however, the refugees found some support on X. Herriy Cahyadi, an Indonesian who runs his own humanitarian NGO, lambasted the university students who participated in Wednesday’s incident as “barbarians” in a post on X.

“What’s the difference between you and the uneducated, violent group? Your alma mater is a symbol of higher education. But your mentality is savage,” Herriy, posting under @herricahyadi, said.