LEADER 04085nam 22006132 450 001 9911046717003321 005 20251114022137.0 010 $a9789815011500 010 $a9815011502 024 7 $a10.1355/9789815011500 035 $a(CKB)4100000012876359 035 $a(OCoLC)1332778919 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_101465 035 $a(DE-B1597)634018 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789815011500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30355776 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30355776 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789815011500 035 $a(Perlego)4253824 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789815011494 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012876359 100 $a20230804d2023|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCyber Troops, Online Manipulation of Public Opinion and Co-optation of Indonesia's Cybersphere /$fYatun Sastramidjaja, Wijayanto 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aSingapore :$cISEAS?Yusof Ishak Institute,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aTrends in Southeast Asia ;$vissue 7, 2022 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Nov 2025). 311 08$a9789815011494 311 08$a9815011499 327 $tFrontmatter --$tFOREWORD --$tCyber Troops, Online Manipulation of Public Opinion and Co-optation of Indonesia?s Cybersphere. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY --$tCyber Troops, Online Manipulation of Public Opinion and Co-optation of Indonesia?s Cybersphere --$tTHE CO-OPTATION OF CYBERSPACE AS AUTHORITARIAN INNOVATION 330 $aOrganized propaganda and public opinion manipulation are increasing in Indonesia's cybersphere. Specifically, since 2019, there has been a marked rise of cyber troop campaigns that serve to mobilize public consensus for controversial government policies. Cyber troop operations played a crucial role in three controversial events in which public opinion had been initially critical of the government policy at issue. These were: (a) the revision of the Law on the Corruption Eradication Commission in September 2019; (b) the launch of the New Normal policy during the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020; and (c) the passing of the Omnibus Law for Job Creation in October 2020. In all three cases, there is clear evidence of cyber troops manipulating public opinion in support of government policy. In all three cases, the cyber troops manufactured consent by flooding social media with narratives that promoted the governing elite's agenda, often using deceptive messages and disinformation that were amplified by numerous 'buzzer' and 'bot' accounts. Thereby they effectively drowned out oppositional discourses on social media and neutralized dissent, especially as mainstream media simultaneously echoed the cyber troops' narratives. The ever more systematic use of cyber troops indicates increasing co-optation of Indonesia's cybersphere for elite interests. This threatens to undermine the quality of public debate and democracy in Indonesia because cyber troop operations not only feed public opinion with disinformation but also prevent citizens from scrutinizing and evaluating the governing elite's behaviour and policy-making processes, which further exacerbates Indonesia's ongoing democratic regression. 410 0$aTrends in Southeast Asia ;$vissue 7, 2022. 517 3 $aCyber Troops, Online Manipulation of Public Opinion & Co-optation of Indonesia's Cybersphere 606 $aCyberspace$zIndonesia 606 $aPropaganda$zIndonesia 607 $aIndonesia$xPolitics and government$y20th century 615 0$aCyberspace 615 0$aPropaganda 676 $a959.803 700 $aSastramidjaja$b Yatun $01793328 702 $aWijayanto 712 02$aISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911046717003321 996 $aCyber Troops, Online Manipulation of Public Opinion and Co-optation of Indonesia's Cybersphere$94468225 997 $aUNINA