The Role of Religious Leaders and the Regional Government of East Java in Tackling Hoax Chain Message

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10.2991/assehr.k.211223.137How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hoax; Public Figure; Rationality of Religious Society

Abstract

The research is set off from the problem of the pandemic COVID-19, which from the beginning happened in Indonesia already reaped a lot of debate, where it is penetrated on the many issues, controversies to hoax related to COVID-19, including about the hoax COVID-19 in “Jatim Meledak” as well as the controversy regarding illegitimate vaccines are scattered widely amid the community, especially the region of East Java. Hoax is the information of a lie that is not sourced, deployed with the goal of making people uneasy and confused. The presence of digitizing the middle of the community leads to information that can be dispersed with a very ease that then triggers the hurly-burly in the critical, as the time is. Elements of religion of both religiosity and the characters always present complement a variety of phenomena and the reality of life, social as society. The purpose of the research is done is to determine the relationship of cause-and-effect that is caused from problems hoax related to COVID-19, which has long flourished as the community religious as well as the role of figures of the religion and the East Java regional government in educating the society of his as well as efforts to overcome the problems of the. Methods of research are used in the writings of this is the study of literature with the analysis of the descriptive qualitative using the theory of rationality belongs to Max Weber. Results while showing that the role of the public figure is very influential to handle problems hoaxed in the middle of the community.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Salma Qotrunada S
AU  - Agus Machfud Fauzi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - The Role of Religious Leaders and the Regional Government of East Java in Tackling Hoax Chain Message
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2021 (IJCAH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 786
EP  - 792
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211223.137
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211223.137
ID  - S2021
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