Social Media Warfare in Indonesia Political Campaign: A Survey

Abstract

Social Media has a strategic role in political competition. By using social media, information delivery to the public becomes faster. As a medium of mass information dissemination with broader penetration in society, social media has adverse effects in its use, such as unhealthy competition, hate-speech spreader means, hoax propagation facilities, to the means of spreading of radical, ethnic, and religious issues. In the world of Politics, Social media is used as a weapon (Cyber warfare) as a material to attack opponents with spreading of radical, ethnic, and religious issues issues. The Government of Indonesia has made various efforts in combating cyber warfare, through the Electronic Information and Transaction Act, purchasing ICT devices to detect and action against the spread of negative issues on social media in Indonesia. However, some Indonesians still consider the Government’s lack of role in tackling social media war in Indonesia. This is due to the lack of literacy gained by the people of Indonesia. This paper we explain the efforts of the Government of Indonesia in the prevention of social media warfare, focusing on information technology aspects used by the Indonesian government in tackling hoax and propaganda content spreader on social media. We offer a discussion on the adoption of social media propaganda countermeasures that have been done by developed countries in filtering social media into a means of trusted information