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Overcome Political Hoaxes Can’t be Seasonal

An effective digital literacy movement requires a systemic and continuous approach to train the public to think critically and prevent them from the trap of information manipulation.

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Quotes about tolerance written by students participating in a training are displayed at the 2020 Young Creators’ Summit in Art: 1 New Museum, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday (15/1/2020). The event was the final activity of student training aimed at improving students’ media literacy to counter negative information, hate speech and provocation. Titled Journalism of Diversity for high school students, the activity was held in 10 cities from March to October 2019.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — An effective digital literacy movement requires a systemic and continuous approach to train the public to think critically and prevent them from the trap of information manipulation. However, in Indonesia, hoaxes or disinformation are still often dealt with reactively, through the ups and downs of the measures and digital literacy that follow the momentum when hoaxes are rising, especially related to political issues.

In fact, it is not easy to identify hoaxes. Survey results of the National Movement for Digital Literacy (GNLD) Siberkreasi in March-November 2019 in 18 regencies/cities in Indonesia showed that 95.8 percent of 987 respondents claimed to have encountered hoaxes. However, the majority of respondents, namely 54.4 percent, claimed that they were sometimes confused about the content of hoaxes and facts. The majority of the survey respondents were educated people, such as teachers, pupils, students, employees, civil servants, entrepreneurs and content creators aged 15-45 years.

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