Net-attack 2.0: Digital Post-Truth and its Regulatory Challenges in Indonesia

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10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.26How to use a DOI?

Keywords

net-attack; digital post-truth; electronic content; regulation; Indonesia

Abstract

Post Truth has been a global phenomenon. It emerged in the heightening political situation particularly during the 2016 US Presidential election and Brexit. It also echoed during the 2017 Jakarta Gubernatorial election where hoaxes, misleading information and hate speeches were massively produced and distributed within the social networks and created polarization between communities that might have led to a higher potential of horizontal conflicts. In this paper, we argue that misleading information is not solely in the form of hoaxes, but also valid news which is reframed in certain ways to paralyse people’s ability to think critically and objectively. This is a new type of attack that we call “Net-attack 2.0”. We set up a basic view of cyber-attack evolving stages based on its targets, which are: Cyberattack 1.0; Cyberattack 2.0; Netattack 1.0; and Netattack 2.0. The Net-attack 2.0 challenges the Indonesian internet regulatory systems. The existing Electronic and Information Transactions Act (the EIT Act) may be insufficient to address the issues. We present conclusions with several recommendations. First, the authority should take a legal review towards the EIT Act particularly article 28. Second, the authority may consider to treating user generated contents as a journalistic product and subject to Journalism Act and Code of Ethics. Lastly, the authority may treat the online attack as a physical space attack and subject to the Criminal Code. Even so, legal review should be taken on each article in the Criminal Code which is also referenced in the EIT Act.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Vience Mutiara Rumata
AU  - Ashwin Sasongko Sastrosubroto
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TI  - Net-attack 2.0: Digital Post-Truth and its Regulatory Challenges in Indonesia
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