Protect Citizens from Digital Propaganda

KOMPAS/JUMARTO YULIANUS

President Joko Widodo delivers his speech during the opening of a National Press Day (HPN) 2020 event in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, on Saturday (8/2/2020). HPN 2020 entitled Press Promotes South Kalimantan as A Gate to the State Capital City.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The government\'s plan to prepare regulations to protect the press world from digital platform attacks from abroad gives a positive signal for the survival of the mass media. However, there is something more urgent, namely the need for the government to deliberate laws that protect citizens from the invasion of global digital propaganda.In commemoration of National Press Day (HPN) in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, Saturday (8/2/2020), President Joko Widodo said the government would immediately prepare regulations to protect the press world from digital platform attacks.

According to a media observer from the Islamic University of Indonesia and a doctor of studies in the public broadcasting system at the University of Munich, Masduki, the more urgent matter is precisely how to protect Indonesians who are directly affected by the political and economic propaganda of digital media on a global scale.