Indonesia’s COVID-19 Infodemic : : A Battle for Truth or Trust? / / Yatun Sastramidjaja.
Besides being one of the countries most severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia also experienced a severe “infodemic”: an overabundance of contradictory information—including misinformation and disinformation—on COVID-19. This infodemic hampered pandemic mitigation efforts, resulting i...
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Sastramidjaja, Yatun, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Indonesia’s COVID-19 Infodemic : A Battle for Truth or Trust? / Yatun Sastramidjaja. Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (36 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Too Much Information -- Misinformation, Mixed Messages and Manipulation -- Vaccine Hesitancy and Conspiracy Theories -- From Viral Distrust to Good Governance restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Besides being one of the countries most severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia also experienced a severe “infodemic”: an overabundance of contradictory information—including misinformation and disinformation—on COVID-19. This infodemic hampered pandemic mitigation efforts, resulting in non-compliance with public health measures and delays to the national vaccination programme in the first six months of the pandemic due to widespread vaccine hesitancy or vaccine refusal. Furthermore, it fomented public distrust of the government and other institutions. On Indonesian social media, this infodemic engendered a peculiar type of hybrid narrative, combining global conspiracy theories with local moral economies and religious sentiments. Religious micro-influencers were particularly influential in spreading the narrative that the government’s COVID-19 policies could not be trusted, and that COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous and haram. Such posts were often removed in line with the social media platforms’ policies to combat false information on COVID-19, and the individuals who created such content risked prosecution in line with the government’s punitive approach to “hoaxes”. However, this did not lessen the prevalence of anti-vaccine narratives, nor did it mitigate public distrust of the government. The government also contributed to the spiral of distrust through its inconsistent policies, lack of transparency, and mixed messages. Especially in the pandemic’s early phases, government officials themselves were found spreading misleading information, first to downplay the severity and risk of COVID-19 in order to avoid social unrest, and subsequently to push for a quick reopening of the economy. In prioritizing the economy over public health, considerable resources were spent on influence campaigns to persuade the public to continue business as normal. The influence campaigns appeared to succeed in persuading people to return to work and to get vaccinated eventually. However, public distrust remained and was easily reactivated on social media in response to inconsistencies and double standards in the government’s enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783111024561 https://doi.org/10.1355/9789815104691 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789815104691 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789815104691/original |
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