The Need for Improvement of Digital Literacy to Fighting Against Fake News in Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia is a democratic country with freedom of speech being one of its pillars. Recently, freedom of opinion has shifted and changed shape, no longer in the context of the real world, but also in cyberspace. This was then used by a group of individuals to reach their target of getting mass people quickly and irresponsibly, one of them is using fake news. This fake news can create information that is consumed by the public unconsciously because of a lack of literacy culture. For this reason, the purpose of this study is to increase the awareness of the Indonesian government and society about the urgency of the danger of the spread of fake news, as well as the importance of using private data since people are now running in the era of gigantic databases. The research method used in this study is descriptive qualitative research method with data and observation, with literacy studies in addition. This research expects the capability of the government in managing policies to improve digital literation for the people of Indonesia so that the spread of hoaxes can be minimized and suppressed.