Social Media and the 2019 Indonesian Elections: Hoax Takes the Centre Stage

Hui, Jennifer Yang

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“…Despite the KPU's data, there is evidence that WhatsApp has also been used for campaigning, and, often, for misinformation and disinformation. During the 2019 elections, information shared on WhatsApp accused the police criminal intelligence unit of controlling the KPU vote-counting system, insinuating an advantage to the incumbent candidate (Hui 2020).…”

Section: Digital Coverage and Digital Campaigning In Electionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such deficient monitoring could also lead to a lack of fairness and rampant disinformation among the electorate. Wealthier political parties and candidates may hire 'buzzers'-a term unique to Indonesia referring to online influencers hired to strategically amplify messages (Hui 2020)-without detection, if unreported. There needs to be a requirement for political parties and candidates not only to identify their 'buzzers', but also to include payments made to them in campaign finance reports.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Digital Campaigning and Political Finance in the Asia and the Pacific Region: A New Age for an Old Problem

Tham¹,

Carson²,

Aman³

et al. 2022

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This report studies the intersection between digital campaigning in elections, and political finance and its regulation in the Asia and the Pacific region. In so doing, it connects the digital disruption with an existential threat to democracies across the world―money in politics. Political finance poses the danger of not only ‘policy capture’ but also, in worse scenarios, state capture by monied interests. The report maps out the nature and extent of digital campaigning in the Asia and the Pacific region, with a focus on five country case studies (Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan and Kyrgyzstan), and it studies the regulation of digital campaigning under political finance laws. It analyses the democratic implications of digital campaigning for political finance and its regulation. Recommendations are provided for regulating the nexus between digital campaigning and political finance to enhance the benefits of digital campaigning for democracies in the Asia and the Pacific region.

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Digital Campaigning and Political Finance in the Asia and the Pacific Region: A New Age for an Old Problem

Tham¹,

Carson²,

Aman³

et al. 2022

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“…Bahkan sejak pemilu 2014, media massa atau media sosial menjadi arena campaign dan "jualan" bagi kandidat calon presiden dan wakil presiden atau elite politik lainnya (Herpamudji, 2015). Bahkan buzzer-buzzer politik, berita hoax bermunculan bersamaan dengan kontestasi politik elektoral (Hui, 2020). Sehingga dinamika politik di media sosial memberi warna dalam partisipasi politik akhir-akhir ini, baik bagi pemilih pemula maupun bagi masyarakat yang menjadikan media sosial sebagai preferensi politiknya selain media mainstream yang ada (Juditha, 2017(Juditha, , 2019Media, 2014;Nur Wardhani, 2018).…”

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Kesenjangan Angka Partisipasi Pemilih

Hasanuddin

Rizaldi²,

Marta

et al. 2021

Nakh. J. I. P.

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Penelitian ini bertujuan menjelaskan kondisi kesenjangan angka partisipasi pemilih di antara Pilkada Riau 2018 dan Pemilu 2019 di Riau. Pada Pilkada Provinsi Riau tahun 2018, tingkat partisipasi pemilih relatif rendah. Berbeda dengan pada Pemilu di Riau tahun 2019, partisipasi pemilih relatif tinggi dan berbeda secara signifikan. Pertanyaannya adalah faktor apa yang menjadi penyebab kesenjangan angka partisipasi pemilih tersebut? Pertanyaan menjadi menarik, karena kenyataannya dua momentum pemilihan yang berbeda ini diikuti sebagian besar pemilih yang sama, berlangsung dalam jarak waktu yang relatif pendek dan dilakukan di tempat yang sama. Banyak pilihan teoritis untuk menjelaskan kondisi kesenjangan yang ada, tetapi mempertimbangkan dua pemilihan itu dilakukan dalam waktu yang berdekatan, sehingga tidak rasional mengasumsikan terdapat perubahan besar pada kondisi pemilih, maka penelitian ini melihat perbedaan faktor stimuluslah yang menjadi penyebab kesenjangan sebagaimana diteorisasikan oleh Milbrath. Pendekatan metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan mix-method (campuran) dengan penekanan pada metode kualitatif. Sedangkan tipologi penelitian yang diterapkan yaitu causal comparative research. Penelitian ini menemukan tiga faktor utama yang menjadi penyebab kesenjangan angka partisipasi pemilih pada dua momentum pemilu tersebut yaitu: Pertama, perbedaan jumlah aktor politik yang berkepentingan untuk memberi stimulus pada pemilih; Kedua, gaung politik yang menstimulus pemilih untuk mengidentifikasi pada calon tertentu yang sedang berkontestasi dan terdorong untuk memenangkannya; ketiga, pengaruh media massa dan media sosial. Penelitian ini menyarankan, Pilkada dilaksanakan bersamaan dengan pileg daerah sedangkan Pilpres dilaksanakan bersamaan dengan pileg nasional untuk menyeimbangkan partisipasi pemilih.

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“…This explains both supporters' characteristics of representation, but not their personal religious-ideological representation (Panuju, 2019). In terms of netizen activities on social media, the formation of such polarization involved political buzzers from the respective camps that were subsequently known as cyber troops/armies (Hui, 2020). Buzzer is a unique term used in the Indonesian context.…”

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Escaping social media: the end of netizen’s political polarization between Islamists and nationalists in Indonesia?

Syahputra,

Fajar Riyanto,

Dian Pratiwi

et al. 2023

Media Asia

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The current article explains why netizens are escaping the political polarization observed in their activities on social media during the 2014 and 2019 Indonesian presidential elections. The research data were obtained from in-depth interviews with a number of netizens who were activists on social media and engaged in political polarization. The existing political polarization had been bolstered by netizen's activities that were rampant across various echo chambers, which were established and driven by ideological and affective elements. Netizens succeeded in escaping the existing political polarization on account of promises broken by the pair of presidential-vice presidential candidates they supported and due to a natural drive of the election being over. Nevertheless, this article reveals that netizen's escape from political polarization on social media does not necessarily suggest the end of the existing political polarization. The present study found that netizen's political polarization on social media has shifted to political polarization awareness and latent political polarization. This clarifies that the existing political polarization has simply evolved into a new political polarization. The findings in this research may have implications on factors that threaten democracy in the general election system or new relations of political communication in the era of new media.

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Social Media and the 2019 Indonesian Elections: Hoax Takes the Centre Stage

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Digital Campaigning and Political Finance in the Asia and the Pacific Region: A New Age for an Old Problem

Digital Campaigning and Political Finance in the Asia and the Pacific Region: A New Age for an Old Problem

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Escaping social media: the end of netizen’s political polarization between Islamists and nationalists in Indonesia?

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