By: Devi Putri Anjani )*
It is very important for all elements of the nation without exception to jointly be able to prevent the spread of hoaxes and hate speech in society. This is in order to be able to create a peaceful 2024 election.
The implementation of a democratic party and political contestation through the General Election event which is an event every 5 (five) years in Indonesia is an agenda that is intended to circulate a change of leadership. As the name suggests, this should be a ‘party’ that makes all elements of society happy.
Therefore, maintaining smoothness and peace in every process or stage in the election is an obligation that belongs to all elements of the nation without exception, because the conduciveness of all Indonesian people who have different backgrounds from each other will not be easily achieved if only a few efforts are made. parties only.
However, of course, in the implementation of political contestation, there will definitely be winners and losers. Like in any contest, there will be a fierce competition among the candidates who take part in it. The existence of this fierce competition also makes all the candidates or competing parties really want to win, so they even justify any means to achieve victory.
Precisely this is what makes the implementation of all stages in the General Election, including in the upcoming 2024, have its own challenges to be passed by all people. Some of the challenges that are very important to be able to face are how to spread fake news or hoaxes and hate speech.
Moreover, in an era when the flow of information can be very easily accessed by anyone like today, where all elements of society from various walks of life can very easily access any information through their gadgets as well as social media or digital spaces.
It should also be noted that social media or digital space that is commonly accessed, all the information in it is not necessarily a fact that is presented, but because everyone is free to access and produce something there, it actually makes that room a place for many fake news to spread and hate speech.
In this regard, the Minister of Communication and Informatics (Menkominfo RI) Budi Arie Setiadi invites the whole community and all other parties to create peaceful 2024 elections by preventing fake news or hoaxes, slander and hate speech from spreading.
There should be no hoaxes, slander and hate speech because all people in this country are one unit as a nation and are also brothers and sisters of one country, so that people in Indonesia should not be divided just because they receive or consume wrong information on social media. or elsewhere in connection with the upcoming election.
Continuing to maintain national unity is indeed something that all elements of society should continue to strive for, because with the existence of national unity and unity, Indonesia is a very strong country, even able to expel invaders from the country when this country was still colonized by other nations.
It was the duty of the previous generations to unite this nation, then when this nation was united, now the task has shifted to the younger generation so that later on how to continue to keep Indonesia as a country that remains solid so that it becomes a developed country in the future.
Therefore, all parties must make the momentum of the 2024 Election an agenda to bring coolness in order to continue to maintain the application of the principles of democracy in Indonesia and to bring coolness to the country. Do not let the existence of a democratic party even threaten the unity and integrity that previously had been painstakingly woven by the nation’s founding fathers and heroes with the desire to divide by a group of people or certain groups.
In order to continue to maintain smoothness and peace in the entire process of the 2024 Election stages themselves, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia (RI) through the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kemkominfo) is very strongly committed to being ready to continue to counteract all hoax content so that there is the possibility of radicalism continuing to spread in the digital space.
The existence of a peaceful 2024 election is a shared responsibility that all layers and elements of society in the country should be able to carry out without exception. To be able to ensure and achieve the democratic party’s agenda which is full of peace, preventing hoaxes and hate speech from continuing to develop is the right thing to do.
)* The author is a Media Ambassador Contributor