Resty Woro Yuniar – An Indonesian anti-government activist's secret plastic surgery procedure has spiralled into the country's latest fake news scandal ahead of next year's presidential

Jakarta (Antara) – National Campaign Team (BPN) of Prabowo Subianto – Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno pair has prepared more than 300 lawyers to assist National Mandate Party (PAN) Honorary Cou

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The coordinator spokesman of National Campaign Agency Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno, Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak said the police summon to Amien Rais and Sa

Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh, Jakarta – The anti-government activist who lied about being assaulted to cover up a cosmetic operation was detained by Jakarta police on Friday night (Oct 5)

Jakarta – The Gerinda Party remains optimistic that the recent fake news scandal involving opposition activist Ratna Sarumpaet – a former member of presidential challenger Prabowo Subia

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Vice presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno said he was ready to provide a statement to the police regarding the case of spreading hoax that ensnared the ac

Vindry Florentin, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has admitted to sponsoring Ratna Sarumpaet's trip to the 2018 "The 11th Women Playwrights International Conference" event in Santi

Jakarta – Following a scandal in which she lied to the public about undergoing cosmetic surgery, political activist Ratna Sarumpaet was arrested on Thursday evening at Soekarno-Hatta In

Ryan Dwiky Anggriawan, Jakarta – Deputy of the National Campaign Team of Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin, Johnny G.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Presidential contender Prabowo Subianto has apologized for amplifying a false claim made by his campaign team member, Ratna Sarumpaet, that she had been

Kartika Anggraeni and Chitra Paramaesti, Jakarta – The government stated it had a strong reason to conclude that the photo recently circulated in the public related to humanitarian acts

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Indonesian Communication and Informatics Ministry found several misleading contents that followed the Donggala earthquake and tsunami-stricken Palu in Centra

Ratna Sarumpaet, an outspoken critic of President Joko Widodo's government who is now a senior member of the presidential campaign team of Gerindra Chairman Prabowo Subianto for next Ap

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Indonesia's communications ministry has announced plans to hold weekly briefings on fake news, in an effort to educate the public about the spread of disinformation

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called on Indonesians to be aware of fake news in the upcoming simultaneous legislative and presidential elections, while dismissing once ag

Jakarta – The campaign teams of presidential candidates President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Prabowo Subianto have called for the closure of a website accusing the latter's running mate,

Jakarta (Antara) – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his pair, Sandiaga Uno, have set up an anti-hoax campaign supervisory team to help their supporters convey accurate inform

Andhika Prasetia, Jakarta – Presidential Staff deputy head Ali Mochtar Ngabalin has rebuked Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) deputy chairperson Fadli Zon over the posting of

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Election watchdog Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) assessed false information or hoax could delegitimize an election considering it would enco

Jakarta – Fierce rivalry in the concurrent legislative and presidential elections next year is expected to result in a flood of hoaxes and fake news as candidates and their supporters w

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The State Palace dismissed suggestions made by the Democratic Party that it was behind a scathing Asia Sentinel article accusing the party and its lead

Indonesian social media is often awash in fake news, especially around elections, and the government has been fighting these hoaxes with harsh laws that can criminalize the creation and

Rosie Perper – Indonesian political actors are paying social media influencers to spread propaganda ahead of the country's 2019 elections, in a growing practice that many believe has st

David Lipson – Dozens of "buzzers" are getting paid to spread propaganda to armies of followers as the political elite wage war in cyberspace in an attempt to maintain power.

Pribadi Wicaksono, Jakarta – The supporters of the incumbent candidate Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo have started to create teams in a bid to succeed the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin pair in the 2019 Pres

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – To pass them off as real, Alex would enliven his fake accounts with dashes of humanity.

There have been many blatantly false accusations made about Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, such as the one about how he's secretly a Chinese communist, but nobody has said anything

It's sadly common for fake news stories and hoaxes to spread in times of crisis, spreading even more fear and uncertainty.

Riza Roidila, Jakarta – Indonesia's Immigration Directorate General denied on Saturday a report by an Israeli media portal claiming that it was issuing tourist visas to Israelis.

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Jakarta (Antara) – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has endlessly issued clarification on the issues and allegations that accuses him of being involved in the extinct Indonesian Communist

Celestina Soares – The General Commander of the National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) Commissioner Julio da Costa Hornai appealed to the public to not trust information shared on social

M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan gave his opinion on President Jokowi's speech that mainly dismissed the many rumors and al

Ahmad Fikri, Jakarta – Indonesian Press Council Chairman Yosep Adi Prasetyo reminded news agencies to take further cautious steps in reporting the simultaneous regional elections (Pilka

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru, Riau – A panel of judges at Pekanbaru District Court has sentenced Jasriadi, the leader of hate-speech propagator network Saracen, to 10 months in prison for i

Dinda Purnamasari – On April 2, the website muslimbersatu.info published an article titled "Polling Google: 86% don't agree with Jokowi for 2nd term".

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – Indonesian National Police Inspector General Setyo Wasisto initially suspects that the motive behind the recent fake egg hoax is to spread fear and merely scare

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – While recent arrests of alleged Muslim Cyber Army (MCA) members has shed light on the group's network and online operations, several questions remain: what is

Damar Juniarto – On 1 March, the Indonesian National Police announced the arrest of 14 members of the so-called Muslim Cyber Army (MCA) network for defamation, spreading hoax news and h

Jalelah Abu Baker, Singapore – Falsehoods are created and spread online in Indonesia for economic and political reasons with no regard for the consequences, said the founder and chairma

Harry Pearl – Indonesia is battling a wave of fake news and online hate speech ahead of presidential elections in 2019, as a string of arrests underscore fears it could crack open socia

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Gadjah Mada University sociologist Arie Sujito said that hoax and hate speech that commodifies issues of ethnicity and religion has intensified heading t

The existence of the long banned Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) still remains a highly controversial political topic more than 50 years after the country's bloody anti-communist purge

Ihsanuddin, Serang – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has issued a strong warning against people who spread slander accusing him of being linked to the banned Indonesian Communist Party (

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – Langkat Police in North Sumatra and journalists from online and printed media have announced their commitment to campaign against hoaxes and fake

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Police in Indonesia believe they have uncovered a clandestine fake news operation designed to corrupt the political process and destabilise the government.

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – House of Representatives Deputy Chairman Fahri Hamzah and Fadli Zon were reported to Jakarta Police on Monday, March 12, for allegedly spreading hoaxes and SARA

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police has formed a special task force to scour the internet in the war against fake news and hoaxes.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Anti-Slander Society (Mafindo) has set up a national anti-hoax force, which aims to tackle the spread of hoaxes in the lead up to the simultaneous regional head

Sheany, Jakarta – A human rights group said the so-called Muslim Cyber Army, which has allegedly been responsible for spreading fake news and hate speech on social media, is more harmfu