Community Initiatives to Raise Awareness about Hoaxes
Many people still need digital literacy. Hoaxes can spread because the level of literacy is low and the level of conflict is very high, making people too sensitive.
The number of victims killed in the riots in Wamena, Jayawijaya Regency, Highlands Papua, Thursday (23/2/2023), increased from 10 to 12 people.
Unfounded news is increasingly prone to triggering uncontrollably aggressive reactions by the public. In recent cases, people became incited into taking the law into their own hands, which resulted in physical harm. They did it under the pretext of protecting the community in the wake of rife child abductions in several areas in Indonesia.
In Sorong Manoi District, Southwest Papua, a mob burned a woman to death on Jan. 24. The victim had been suspected of being a child kidnapper.