timurJAUh: KAFE bertemakan Nazi di INDONESIA dibuka SEMULA selepas SETAHUN KEMARAHAN Antarabangsa memaksa PENUTUPANNYA . . .

Soldatenkaffe "Cafe Askar" di Bandung, Indonesia (Soldatenkaffe "The Soldiers' Cafe" in Bandung, Indonesia (AFP Photo/Timur Matahari)

bOLLy ENn - Sebuah kafe tema-Nazi kontroversi di Indonesia - penuh dengan Swastika, sebuah potret Adolf Hitler, orang2 yang berpakaian dalam pakaian seragam Nazi dan bilik soal siasat olok2 - telah dibuka semula kurang daripada setahun selepas kemarahan antarabangsa membawa kepada penutupannya.

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SoldatenKaffee (Café Askar), dinamakan selepas Perang DUNIA Ke-II tpt melepak yang popular untuk tentera Jerman di Paris, dibuka pada tahun 2011. Ia terletak di bandar Bandung, ibu kota Wilayah Jawa Barat dan bandar yang ke-3 terbesar di Indonesia.

Kafe itu ditutup pada Julai 2013 oleh pemiliknya, Henry Jamaludin, selepas media, termasuk Jakarta Globe tempatan, artikel mengenai kafe yang diterbitkan yang mencetuskan tindak balas global.

Jamaludin berjanji untuk membuka semula kafe terkenal beliau tidak lama lagi dengan tema Perang Dunia II yang lebih luas dan membuang semua Swastika, pengacaranya kepada AFP berikut penutupan itu.

NAZI-themed Café in INDONESIA Reopens a year

After intl Uutrage FORCED its CLOSURE . . .

A controversial Nazi-theme café in Indonesia – replete with swastikas, a portrait of Adolf Hitler, people dressed in Nazi uniforms and a mock interrogation room – has reopened less than a year after international outrage led to its closure.

‘No Fan of Hitler’: Nazi-themed café in Indonesia causes worldwide outrage

SoldatenKaffee (The Soldiers’ Café), named after a popular WWII hangout for German soldiers in Paris, opened in 2011. It is located in the city of Bandung, the capital of West Java province and the third-largest city in Indonesia.

The café was shut down in July 2013 by its owner, Henry Mulyana, after media outlets, including the local Jakarta Globe, published articles on the café that sparked a global backlash.

Mulyana promised to reopen his notorious café soon with a broader World War II theme and to remove all the swastikas, his lawyer told AFP following the closure.

Soldatenkaffe "Cafe Askar" di Bandung, Indonesia (Soldatenkaffe "The Soldiers' Cafe" in Bandung, Indonesia (AFP Photo/Timur Matahari)

Walau bagaimanapun, pada hari Sabtu, di SoldatenKaffee dibuka semula, semua simbol-simbol Nazi kekal: yang Swastika dan poster propaganda dengan simbol-simbol Nazi boleh dilihat dengan jelas di kafe ini.

Jamaludin tidak "meluaskan" tema kafe, sebagai hiasan yang kini termasuk beberapa British, Perancis, Amerika Syarikat, Jepun dan barangan tentera Dutch. Beliau juga mencatatkan imej pemimpin terkemuka dalam Perang DUNIA ke-II, seperti PM British Winston Churchill dan pemimpin Soviet Joseph Stalin. Potret Hitler kini tergantung di dinding bersama mereka.

However, on Saturday, at the SoldatenKaffee reopening, all the Nazi symbols remained: the swastikas and propaganda posters with the Nazi symbols could be clearly seen in the café.

Mulyana did “broaden” the café’s theme, as the décor now includes some British, French, the US, Japanese and Dutch military items. He also posted the images of prominent leaders in WWII, such as British PM Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Hitler’s portrait now hangs on the walls alongside theirs.

Soldatenkaffe "Cafe Askar" di Bandung, Indonesia (Soldatenkaffe "The Soldiers' Cafe" in Bandung, Indonesia (AFP Photo/Timur Matahari)

"Dari awal saya katakan, SoldatenKaffee bukan kafe Nazi. Tema ini adalah kafe Perang DUNIA ke-II," Jamaludin kepada AFP.

Tempat ini telah dilawati oleh beberapa orang muda yang berpakaian seragam Nazi. Seorang lelaki memakai swastika di tangannya, manakala yang lain ditimbulkan untuk gambar di dalam bilik soal siasat olok-olok sebagai tawanan.

Jamaludin menegaskan, bagaimanapun, bahawa "semua aspek SoldatenKaffee adalah undang-undang."

"From the beginning I have said that the SoldatenKaffee is not a Nazi cafe. This cafe's theme is World War II," Mulyana told AFP.

The spot was visited by several young people who were dressed in Nazi uniforms. One man was wearing a swastika on his arm, while others posed for photos in a mock interrogation room as prisoners.

Mulyana insisted, however, that "all aspects of the SoldatenKaffee are legal.”

Soldatenkaffe "Cafe Askar" di Bandung, Indonesia (Soldatenkaffe "The Soldiers' Cafe" in Bandung, Indonesia (AFP Photo/Timur Matahari)

Beliau menambah: "Kami mempunyai banyak pelanggan dari Eropah dan mereka tidak mempunyai masalah dengan tema Perang Dunia II, kerana ia dilihat di sini dari sudut sejarah."

Indonesia adalah sebahagian besarnya menyedari Nazisme dan tidak ramai orang Yahudi tinggal di negara ini.

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He added: “We have a lot of customers from Europe and they don't have a problem with the World War II theme, because it is seen here from a historical perspective."

Indonesians are largely unaware of Nazism and not many Jews live in the country.

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Promoting Nazi ideology, including symbols associated with Nazism, and denial of the Jewish Holocaust, are criminalized in many countries.