Jakarta – Two people have been arrested for allegedly spreading a video claiming that the General Election Commission's (KPU) computer servers were being manipulated to ensure the vict

Fake news is once again a major concern for authorities ahead of Indonesia's elections on April 17.

Jakarta – A police officer in Garut, West Java, divulged on Monday that his accusations about the local police being impartial were the result of a personal conflict.

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – Chairman of the Prabowo Subianto presidential Campaign team Amien Rais attended a hearing at the South Jakarta District Court, Thursday, April 4.

In a move that may have something to do with the upcoming election, President Joko Widodo took to social media today to urge Indonesians to use common sense and stop sharing hoaxes and

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has found that 130 of 1,224 hoaxes and fake news spread from August 2018 to March 2019 were related to the presidential candidates

Rezki Alvionitasari, Jakarta – The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) said that it intensified coordination with several institutions in handling hoax or false information ahead of t

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister of Politics, Law, and Security Affairs Wiranto has long likened the spread of disinformation or hoax as acts of terrorism since both impo

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – The spread of fake news and disinformation has spiked in Indonesia in recent months, weeks before millions are scheduled to vote in the country's elections.

Following several scandals and multiple arrests involving women who were filmed telling lies about President Joko Widodo while campaigning door-to-door for rival candidate Prabowo Subi

Jakarta – Incumbent President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has claimed that rampant fake news and slander has negatively affected his electability and that of his running mate, Ma'ruf Amin, in

Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court began on Thursday the trial of actress and antigovernment activist Ratna Sarumpaet, who is accused of spreading hate speech.

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Indonesian actress-turned-political activist Ratna Sarumpaet appeared in the South Jakarta District Court on Thursday, charged with spreading deceptive inform

Police in West Java named three women, identified by their initials ES, IP and CW – all in their 40s – as suspects for appearing and uploading a video in which they spread unsubstantia

Bandung (AFP) – Three Indonesian housewives have been arrested over an online video that claimed President Joko Widodo would ban prayer and make gay marriage legal in the Muslim majori

Police are reportedly questioning three women, who appear to be linked to presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's campaign, for allegedly spreading lies about incumbent President Jok

Jakarta – The Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno election campaign team (BPN) has admitted that three housewives in Karawang, West Java, who went door-to-door telling people that "the c

Jakarta – The Indonesian Press Council has ruled that daily newspaper Indopos violated the Code of Ethics by spreading misinformation in an article about incumbent President Joko "Joko

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Legal Aid Institute for the Press (LBH Pers) has condemned the hacking of cekfakta.com, an official fact-checking website that was created in a col

Ainur Rohmah, Jakarta – Fake news and hate speech are inundating Indonesia on and offline with the country's general election just two months away and with presidential candidates Prab

Jakarta (Antara) – This week, the name of Saracen Group, an online syndicate that the Indonesian police had investigated in 2017 for allegedly proliferating hoaxes in cyber network, ha

Jakarta (Antara) – The Communications and Informatics Ministry (Kominfo) identified an average of 4-6 daily hoax contents across the internet and social media platforms in January with

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said the term "Russian propaganda" that he used to describe his rival's campaign strategy for the 2019 presidential ele

Marguerite Afra Sapiie and Agnes Anya, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ruffled some feathers by suggesting that his challenger in the 2019 presidential election employed a

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Lyudmila Vorobyeva said she objected to the use of the term "Russian Propaganda" by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in the latter'

The Indonesian campaign season is really heating up now, with incumbent President Joko Widodo hitting back at attacks that he's a puppet of foreign powers by insinuating that his chall

Jakarta – Facebook has shut down hundreds of accounts and pages linked to an Indonesian group accused of spreading hate speech and fake news, the company said Friday.

Jakarta – Police have arrested a suspect, identified as I, 23, in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, for allegedly spreading false information on social media.

Celebrity musician, failed politician and Nazi-apparel aficionado Ahmad Dhani is officially filing an appeal for his 1.5-year prison sentence, which was handed to him at the conclusion

Ayu Cipta, Tangerang – The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) of Tangerang City stopped a Post Office located on Jalan Daan Mogot from delivering the remaining 150 packages or 450 co

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The West Java Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) is reviewing the Indonesia Barokah tabloid, which has been distributed to mosques and pesantren (Islamic board

Jakarta – Indonesian Institute for Science (LIPI) researcher Amin Mudzakir has revealed that that based on the results of a LIPI survey in 2018, there are three regions where there is

The topic of how long Indonesia could last in a hypothetical war has been a hot one in the country after presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto recently made the claim that Indonesia

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno Volunteer Director Deputy Ferry Juliantono strongly denies accusations linking his campaign team to the suspect of spr

Indonesia's National Police have arrested two people believed to have spread a hoax on social media alleging a massive ballot tampering scheme to help President Joko Widodo win reelect

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has reported fake news propagators to the police after misinformation about seven containers of cast ballots from China for presidentia

Jakarta – The Lhokseumawe Police in Aceh have apprehended a 31-year-old man who allegedly edited footage of vice-presidential candidate and Muslim cleric Ma'ruf Amin to show him in a Sa

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has spoken out about banners which have appeared with the writing #JokowiBersamaPKI (#JokowiSameAsPKI – Jokowi is the same as the Indonesian Com

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – A research by KedaiKOPI (Kajian Opini Publik Indonesia/Indonesian Public Opinion Study) shows that only 4 percent of voters in West Java can identify fake news or

Arjuna Pademme – Over the last few years the online media in Papua has grown rapidly.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto opened up at the Indonesian Economic Forum (IEF) today and lamented about how often he is accused of being an ISIS

Following accusations of Islamophobia for their opposition to religion-based laws, the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), one of Indonesia's youngest political parties and arguably the

Arkhelaus Wisnu Triyogo, Jakarta – Both Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Prabowo Subianto's supporters agreed to drop any campaign materials that are deemed irrelevant for the 2019 presidential

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Boyolali – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) Central Java office has instructed members to remove posters depicting President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – In his speech at the Indonesia Solidarity Party (PSI) fourth anniversary, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo expressed his optimism toward the potential of t

Jakarta – Internet users should think twice before sharing anything on social media, with the National Police now intensifying their crackdown on online hoaxes by prosecuting not only t

Jakarta – Chairman of the East Java branch of youth organization Pemuda Pancasila (PP), La Nyalla Mattalitti, 59, has apologized to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for spreading rumors t

Like many other countries throughout the world, Indonesia is struggling with the issue of hoaxes, fakes news and misinformation being spread online, primarily through social media.

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The Indonesian Anti Slander Society (Mafindo) documented numerous hoax contents spread on social media from July to September.