Identity in the Contemporary Indonesian Post-Truth Society - Primordialism on Social Media in the 2017 Election of the DKI Jakarta Governor

Medhy Aginta Hidayat

2018

Abstract

This article examines the identity politics in contemporary Indonesian post-truth society. The development of information-communication technology today has given rise to new challenges in contemporary Indonesian society. On the one hand, it has opened up the communication space among citizens in a more democratic way. On the other hand, it has also raised a number of issues. One such issue is the rise of primordialism through social media. A number of studies have shown an increasing trend of primordialism based on religious, ethnic, and class identity through social media. There is also still an ongoing process of the production and reproduction of false information on social media focused on a particular political interest. Fake news, hoaxes and slander can be spread through social media. Furthermore, facts and truth seem to no longer be important. In a post-truth society, the most important thing seems to be convincing the masses of a certain goal. Using the critical discourse analysis method, the author analysed the netizen conversations in the election of the Governor of DKI Jakarta in 2017 as a case study of identity politics in Indonesia. This article underlines the role of social media utilisation as a part of identity politics in contemporary Indonesian post-truth society.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hidayat M. (2018). Identity in the Contemporary Indonesian Post-Truth Society - Primordialism on Social Media in the 2017 Election of the DKI Jakarta Governor.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA, ISBN 978-989-758-393-3, pages 42-46. DOI: 10.5220/0008816500420046

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icocspa18,
author={Medhy Aginta Hidayat},
title={Identity in the Contemporary Indonesian Post-Truth Society - Primordialism on Social Media in the 2017 Election of the DKI Jakarta Governor},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,},
year={2018},
pages={42-46},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008816500420046},
isbn={978-989-758-393-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,
TI - Identity in the Contemporary Indonesian Post-Truth Society - Primordialism on Social Media in the 2017 Election of the DKI Jakarta Governor
SN - 978-989-758-393-3
AU - Hidayat M.
PY - 2018
SP - 42
EP - 46
DO - 10.5220/0008816500420046