A pirate flag from the Japanese Manga and Anime series of Einime Oda, far away from the grand line, One pieceA divisive type of landfall is making. Across Indonesia, ahead of the Independence Day of the country on August 17, Jolly Roger of Strong Pirates – Monkey D. The flag of Lafi and his fictional crew was hoisted near the door, pinned on the back of vehicles, and was swept away by the national red and white.
The image of the iconic grunting skull in a straw hat has spread far away to attract the attention of the state. For many people, it was a wordless declaration that the state was failing its people. A deputy house speaker condemned the flag as a “attempt to divide the nation”. Another legalist indicated in treason. A senior colleague from President Prabovo Subiento warned that the symbol flown next to the red-and white of Indonesia can reduce the national flag only.
A graffiti of the pirate flag from Japanese Anime One Peace, some Indonesian people adopted as a symbol of disappointment with their government, on 6 August, 2025 on a road in Sukharjo, Central Java, which is ahead of the 80th Independence Day of the country. Photo Credit: AFP
if you know One pieceYou probably already see it. In the prestigious world, ODA has created since 1997 – colored pirates and corrupt marines of all shapes, massacre emperors and a “world government” sizes and a “world government” that eradicates history – Jolly Roger is fine, if you love your country, you could not love your country, but what did you not love your country. The pirate story about friendship and treasures has been a parable about ending atrocities for a long time. And if Lafi and his stronger were present in our world, then the same officers who wrap themselves in jingoist patriotism will probably call them that they brand so many dissatisfaction of harassment in the struggle for regular liberation.
By connecting the ‘enemy’
History is filled with moments when the label “terrorist” has been spread to fit whatever size power was needed. The British colonial administrators used it to discredit Indian revolutionaries; The apartheid South Africa implemented it in Nelson Mandela. The elasticity of this term has long allowed the authority to blur the line between the “public enemy” and “liberator”. One pieceThe world government fulfills this technology, although the story also accepts that violence and extremism are real forces in the world, not only by publicity.
Monkey d. Lafi is depicted, which orders its Crumet USOPP to shoot the World Government flag. Photo Credit: Vis Media
In the series, the state’s promotional machine makes tireless efforts to resume dissatisfaction as danger. Archaeologists at Ohara, guilty of preserving prohibited history; The people of Alabasta, opposing a manufactured rebellion; Skypiea’s shedians, forcibly descend in front of displacement – all are converted into the same caricature as “enemies of peace”. In broadcasting of Marine’s war reporters, like large news Morgons, the state violence is sacred and its victims are provided villains.
And yet, Stharth is not innocent of the allegations that they are threatened by the established order. They have todged government flags, attacked fortified bases, and have aided revolutions in occupied areas. Before the eyes of the whole world, they have declared an open war on the World Government. According to the definitions in a government dosier, these are the functions of terrorism. What One piece However, it has been emphasized that such acts cannot be divorced from conditions that are provoking them, and sometimes refusal to accept the peace built on the back of the oppressed is a moral imperative.
After all, rarely in leaf pages of Geneva conferences (ie Article 1 (4)) from additional protocol I (4)) armed resistance to colonial domination or foreign liberation and dignity of self-determination in foreign occupation. Which means, it is unlikely that it seems that a foolish, rubber boy with a dream also operates in compliance with the international human law.
Politics of liberation
Talent of One piece This is that it wears its politics on its sleeve, while a funny pirate is in the form of a story. Luffy is not a robin hood, material to avoid one bad king and prophen the other. The dense and blockhead can be that, Strong captain wants nothing less than the liberation of global oppressors and the destruction of the order that supports the oppressors in the first place.
Repeatedly, the series takes strawweets to conflicts where moral stakes are absolute. On the island of Fish-Man, systemic racism has raised species against each other for centuries. In Dresarosa, a king recognized by the World Government is actually a chieftain who tortures his people and slaves them. In Ohra, the state performs a full -scale massacre to prevent the truth from avoiding.
You can draw similarities without trying. The work of teaching guide Oda has inspired among workers and teachers, who compare the functions of the World Government for atrocities in real -time in the real world. It is also not an accident that the worst crime One piece Are they committed under the veneer of validity. The white coat of the marine is sewn for admirable deformity. And so to read the chain as political as political is to ignore its very essence, these laws and order are meaningless when they only do powerful service.
Gaza and Stroths
In its peculiarity of removing moral clarity in more cutting -sized food for consideration, the Internet is asking: what will be the Lafi -free Palestine? For One piece Fans, almost very clear to bother with the answer. Set the strawhets down in the Gaza and they consider the siege as only another unjust island, which to slip the food through the blockade, topping the watches and precious the walls. And they probably do it completely knowing that, in view of those who had crossed the powers, they would definitely be branded criminals, extremists or worse.
Monkey d. Lafi punched an astronomical dragon, a member of a group of individuals, descendants of 20 Kings who founded the World Government 800 years ago. Photo Credit: Vis Media
Since the end of 2023, the Israeli military operations in Gaza have killed thousands of citizens, destroyed hospitals and water systems, and forcibly displaced and hungry over a million people. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International has reported patterns of conduct in accordance with crimes against humanity and, in the decision of the International Court of Court, with acts that fulfill the legal definition of continuous genocide.
Under the argument of the World Government, the Palestinians who oppose it – whether by opposing, or by breaking the siege, or by armed conflict – terrorists should be labeled. This is the same argument that condemns stone as barbarity and does not see any contradiction in leveling the entire districts for “safety”. This is the same argument that will put the desired poster of Luffy on every wall from Tel Aviv to Washington.
Any strategy can debate at the time of a particular function of morality and resistance. But the widespread truth is that the oppressors have always reserved the right to decide who is “legitimate” and who is the “enemy of peace”. In One pieceAs in Gaza, that propagated validity is to reduce with justice compared to obedience.
Why are they afraid of flags
Perhaps this is why, in Indonesia, the sudden omnipresent of Strong Flag has ignored the political class. Its Clearly Not only an act of pop culture syllanes or Otaku Bhog. It is a direct reminder that loyalty is not only outstanding on governments because they wave the correct flag. And this is a symbol that has always said: our loyalty is for freedom and not for you.
When symbols such as Jolly Rogers or Kefaheh emerge, they become properly danger because they travel faster than official rhetoric. They offer a shorthand for solidarity and a visual language that can be easily coemed. Governments can try to seize and make them illegal, but in doing so, they inadvertently confirm what their critics are saying: what their rights do to people, and more dangerously, depends on what they can imagine, what they can imagine.
“One piece is not political”
Nevertheless, there has been a particularly disappointing tension among some fans that insist on this. One piece It is just an adventure work, and that politics is something imported by extremist critics. To compare the evaporation behind this idea Animal farm For children’s book about talking to animals. It is ignored that for more than two decades in the series, slavery has been depicted as imperialism, systemic racism, propagation, ethnic cleaning, and very engines of its plot.
Politics of One piece Pass Never Casual, in fact, one can argue that they are very marrow. Oda’s villains have always been strong in ways that reflect our world’s worst habits. And his heroes have always been kind in such ways that endanger the hierarchies given by us.
Monkey d. Lafi Standing Rejolute is depicted, not allowed a jolly Roger to fall. Photo Credit: Vis Media
This is not contrary to the moral spine running through James Gun OvermanWhere the recent interactions about the cape and the crest stand have been much simple, and far more destructive than the biased readings imposed on them. Remove the stand-in and you are abandoned with a hero, which refuses to weigh human life on the scales of alliance or convenience, which will stop a massacre whether it comes from the sanctioned collaborator or oath. In that sense, Lafi and Superman shared a dangerous feature in the eyes of a powerful with their loyalty to their loyalty that the weak people should be preserved, even though it means that it is called a villain by the harm.
If the world of luffy ever bleed with us, you can imagine that his ship has been replaced anywhere or has closed the gel of someone else’s house. Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Ukraine, Shinjiang, Rakhin, Tibet, Tigre, Ireland, Syria, Artia, and in Kurdistan – the name will change with air, but it will not sail until someone’s freedom depends on their permission.
