Two and a half weeks after the death of 133 fans at the Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, Gianni Infantino (FIFA president) was caught partying with Indonesian football leaders, AFP reports.

Joko Widodo and Gianni InfantinoPhoto: Achmad Ibrahim / AP / Profimedia

Gianni Infantino had fun at the match with the leaders of Indonesian football

Infantino made the trip to Indonesia two weeks after the Oct. 1 crash. Footage posted on social media shows the world forum president clapping and laughing with Indonesian leaders.

The FIFA chief met Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta on Tuesday and pledged that FIFA would help improve match security and reform Indonesian football.

But on Wednesday morning, images of Infantino playing among others with Indonesian federation president Mochamad Iriawan appeared on social media.

“Instead of playing football together, they should have gone together to the victims of the Kanjuruhan tragedy,” said Indonesian actor Wino G. Bastian, who has 1.9 million Twitter followers (20,000 of whom liked the post). .

“133 people died. And your president comes here to have fun, play football and laugh? Why don’t you like playing at Kanjuruhan Stadium? Shame on FIFA,” also posted by PanditFootball, a popular account for Indonesian soccer fans with 600,000 followers.

The Indonesian federation’s initial post featuring the images has nearly 6,000 comments, most of them negative, and the controversy was one of the top topics on Twitter on Wednesday in Indonesia, News.ro said.

Indonesian football expert Pangeran Siahan believes that the football officials made a big mistake: “I can’t believe that the federation, which is already in a difficult situation, and its president thought it would be a good idea to take pictures of him laughing and kicking m together with the president. FIFA”.