Hoax as A Threat Towards Nation's Diversity. A Challenge for Indonesian Government to Overcome It

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, grade: 3.00, , language: English, abstract: Popularity of any type of media might be accomplished by various means, one of which is to disseminate hoax. As hoax is considered interesting or sensational with a purpose to attract attention or to enhance profit, media industry is always trapped to publish hoax since it is considered "a false truth". Particularly, social media has a huge tendency to disseminate hoax due to its speed capacity and flexibility to be accessed by public in various social , economy , and education statuses. Apart of the purpose to attract attention or to enhance profit, hoax currently has become a sharp weapon to attack peace situation in the nation diversity. Indonesia with a very diverse circumstance is a priority target for hoax dissemination, principally the one regarding religion and political issues. Case of Tanjung Balai is one of the most dangerous hoaxes due to its negative impacts for the region and its local society. In national scale, it encourages negativity to minority groups, in this case Chinese and Non Moslems. Fortunately, local and national government anticipated it well and conducted strict enforce to the disseminating actor. Through direct observation to various media and literature study, this paper is intended to uncover the threat of hoax for nation's diversity and how the government's attempt is to implement anticipating actions to eradicate further negative effects due to hoax dissemination in this country generally.