ANTI HOAX MOVEMENT IN INDONESIA

librast, 31 October 2018, 22:31 WIB.

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Hoax or fake news is one of the concern in indonesia right now. Because the level of literature in Indonesia is low right now, so not many people can see if this are a fake news or not. Mostly, people only read the news and thought it was true, even though the news was not necessarily true. However, Indonesia is already taking steps to fight hoaxes, not only in the society, but also the government and some communities are fighting hoax right now. These are several communities in indonesia that are fighting hoaxes.

1. MAFINDO - Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia (https://www.mafindo.or.id/)

MAFINDO is an official association organization to fight hoaxes that established on November 19, 2016, made by Isma Januarti, SH., M.KN. and here are the correspondence address:

Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kawasan Epicentrum Utama Mall Epicentrumwalk – Office Suite A529 Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan 12940 Indonesia

Telpon : +62-895-333-930063 Fax : +62-21-5602810 Email : i n f o @ m a f i n d o . or.id Twitter : MafindoID Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/MafindoID/

2. TurnBackHoax (https://turnbackhoax.id/)

This TurnBackHoax.ID site is managed by MAFINDO, the Indonesian Anti Hoax Society. The source of the content is the FAFHH Forum, the Anti-Defamation and Hoax Forum: http://facebook.com/groups/fafhh. The content of this website is really up to date, so you can visit it often to search for the latest hoax. And you can even report hoax news to them, and they will clarify whether it's true or hoax news. It is really good website, worth to read every day.

3. Indonesian Hoax Busters (https://id-id.facebook.com/IndoHoaxBuster/)

Even though the group is not updated well, but you can still read some post on this facebook page so you can know the character of a hoax news so that you can not easily deceived by hoax news.