Hoax During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia: Human Rights Perspective

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211102.182How to use a DOI?

Keywords

hoax; covid-19; human rights; Indonesia

Abstract

Hoaxes have become mainstream in countries with a sizable netizen population, such as Indonesia. The development of hoaxes during the pandemic, actually worsens public access to correct information about efforts against Covid-19. For example, about the mis-informational effects of vaccines that have an impact on death, healthy people do not need to wear masks and thelike. Whereas, in the perspective of Human Rights, everyone has the right to get the right information. Through normative legal research methods, this study tries to find the root cause of the spread of hoaxes during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. The problematics is then analyzed using prescriptive methods to find new concepts related to efforts to prevent hoaxes in the middle of a pandemic. The results of this study show that the spread of hoaxes during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia is very large influenced by economic factors, low literacy and knowledge of the community as well as lack of self-awareness. The recommendations given through this research are in the form of efforts to provide correct education about Covid-19 and the fulfillment of the right to information to the public, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sholahuddin Al-Fatih
AU  - Wahyudi Kurniawan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/22
TI  - Hoax During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia: Human Rights Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law Reform (INCLAR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 133
EP  - 136
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211102.182
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211102.182
ID  - Al-Fatih2021
ER  -