Inp.polri.go.id – Jakarta. Member of Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) Lolly Suhenty states cities has the highest vulnerability for social media toxicity, one of which are Jakarta. The Indonesian capital has the highest potential for black campaign and hate speech in social media.
“In general, Jakarta is the province with the highest vulnerability based on the number of incidents in all social media vulnerability indicators, ranging from racism, hoax, and hate speech,” she wrote in her written statement on Tuesday (10/31/2023).
Jakarta scored 75.00 as the most vulnerable province in social media campaign. The following province is North Maluku with the score of 36.11 and Bangka Belitung Island with 34.03.
In city or regency level, there are Fakfak with score of 30.46, Intan Jaya with score of 19.35, and Malaka with the score of 13.12.
“Fakfak and Intan Jaya Regency is the most vulnerable regency based on the number of incidents in all social media vulnerability indicators, ranging from racism, hoax, and hate speech,” Lolly adds.
She implores a wider collaboration in preventing hoaxes and hate speech in social media campaign. One of which are forming Task Forces from Ministry of Communication and Informatics, Social Media Platform, Election Organizers, and Public Community.
Moreover, she asked law enforcement to routinely held cyber operations in monitoring negative campaign in social media.
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