Proceedings of the International Conference on Religion and Public Civilization (ICRPC 2018)

Criminal Policy of Hate Speech in Social Media Against The Religious Dignity of Society in the Digital Century

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Yanti Amelia Lewerissa
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Yanti Amelia Lewerissa
Available Online January 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icrpc-18.2019.13How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Criminal Policy, Hate Speech Media Social, Religious
Abstract

Hate speech through social media can offend the religious dignity of society. This study aims to analyze the criminal policy of hate speech in social media against the religious dignity of society in the digital century. This type of research is normative legal study. The approach used is law approach and conseptual approach. Legal material consists of primary legal materials, secondary and tertiary. Data collection techniques through literature study and analyzed qualitatively. The results of research show that the development of technology and information also have a negative impact. Data by The Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information demonstrated that in 2016 there are 800 thousand sites in Indonesia indicated as a spreader news lie (hoax) and hate speech. 773 thousand sites have been blocked based on 10 things that is prohibited one of them religious issues. Hate speech usually appears on political momentum. Indonesia will be confronted with two important political agendas, the 2018 election and 2019 presidential election. As a crime, hate speech should be addressed using the concept of criminal policy. It was concluded that criminal policies could be used to tackle hate crime in social media. It is expected that the integration of penal and non penal handling pattern.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Religion and Public Civilization (ICRPC 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-660-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icrpc-18.2019.13How to use a DOI?
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© 2019, 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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