Hoax as Political Influence Tool in Indonesia

Gayes Mahestu, Mariani Dewi, Siswantini

2018

Abstract

Indonesia is facing emergency in managing hoax or fake news in online media. Hoax in this digital era has become an industry that produce fake news sold by agents, be it voluntarily or paid, to be consumed by online media users, being spread through ‘like’ and ‘share’ function. Hoaxes have become very dangerous problems because they are usually provocative, contain slanders, hate speech, and stir up issues. The issues they carry usually are in the sphere of politics as well as regarding ethnicity, religion, race, and inter-group relations that can disturb the national stability. The aim of this research is to understand the Construction of Hoax News in the Online Media in Indonesia throughout 2017. The research is using the Content Analysis Method. Result Show that hoax in Indonesian news is mostly packaged in the form of news, infographics, and meme. It mainly spread through media that appear in social media. Currently many media sites were prohibited by the government because they are proven to be spreading hoax, false news and hate speech on race, ethnicity and religious issues. This kind of media usually uses satire-inclined statements and the titles are bombastic or draw curiosity. Often the content does not match the title and hoax is spread through social media like Facebook. Hoax is often in the form of propaganda, false information, partisan (loyal supporter), satire, sponsored content, and conspirationtheory.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mahestu G., Dewi M. and Siswantini. (2018). Hoax as Political Influence Tool in Indonesia. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 140-147. DOI: 10.5220/0010003900002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Gayes Mahestu and Mariani Dewi and Siswantini},
title={Hoax as Political Influence Tool in Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={140-147},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010003900002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Hoax as Political Influence Tool in Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Mahestu G.
AU - Dewi M.
AU - Siswantini.
PY - 2018
SP - 140
EP - 147
DO - 10.5220/0010003900002917