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Photos of FIFA's president laughing and high-fiving in a football match with local officials weeks after a stadium disaster killed 133 people in Indonesia sparked online fury in the country on Wednesday. 

More than 40 children were among those killed in the stampede on October 1, one of the deadliest disasters in football history.


Police had fired tear gas to quell a pitch invasion after a match in East Java.

FIFA chief Gianni Infantino met Indonesian President Joko Widodo Tuesday in the capital Jakarta, the pair pledging to boost match safety and rebuild Arema FC's Kanjuruhan stadium to avoid a repeat of the disaster.

But on Wednesday morning the Indonesian football association, or PSSI, posted images on its Twitter account of Infantino playing a football match in Jakarta with its under-fire chairman Mochamad Iriawan.

"Instead of playing soccer together, it's better to go to the homes of the victims of the Kanjuruhan tragedy together. They are more important," Indonesian actor Vino G. Bastian tweeted to his 1.9 million followers, gaining just under 20,000 likes.

"133 people have died. And, your president came here to play fun football and laugh? Why don't you just play fun football at Kanjuruhan? Shame on you, @FIFAcom," popular Indonesian football account PanditFootball tweeted to its 600,000 followers, in a post retweeted more than 4,000 times.

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Photos of FIFA's president laughing and high-fiving in a football match with local officials weeks after a stadium disaster killed 133 people in Indonesia sparked online fury in the country on Wednesday. 

More than 40 children were among those killed in the stampede on October 1, one of the deadliest disasters in football history.


Police had fired tear gas to quell a pitch invasion after a match in East Java.

FIFA chief Gianni Infantino met Indonesian President Joko Widodo Tuesday in the capital Jakarta, the pair pledging to boost match safety and rebuild Arema FC's Kanjuruhan stadium to avoid a repeat of the disaster.

But on Wednesday morning the Indonesian football association, or PSSI, posted images on its Twitter account of Infantino playing a football match in Jakarta with its under-fire chairman Mochamad Iriawan.

"Instead of playing soccer together, it's better to go to the homes of the victims of the Kanjuruhan tragedy together. They are more important," Indonesian actor Vino G. Bastian tweeted to his 1.9 million followers, gaining just under 20,000 likes.

"133 people have died. And, your president came here to play fun football and laugh? Why don't you just play fun football at Kanjuruhan? Shame on you, @FIFAcom," popular Indonesian football account PanditFootball tweeted to its 600,000 followers, in a post retweeted more than 4,000 times.

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