Reference Parties for Hoax Clarification

Among the sources used by the public to clarify hoaxes, the internet is the most trusted. Based on the 2021 Digital Literacy Status survey conducted by the Katadata Insight Center (KIC) and Kominfo, 59.6 percent of respondents chose to search the internet for references to clarify disinformation.

The topics most frequently encountered containing hoaxes are politics, health, and religion. Compared to 2020, there was an increase in hoaxes on political topics and a decrease on health and religious topics.

To clarify information containing hoax issues, more people are searching the internet for its validity. This increased from 52.4 percent (2020) to 59.6 percent (2021).

Furthermore, 47.6 percent of the public also seek clarification from family and relatives. In 2020, family and relatives were the primary source for clarifying hoaxes. Meanwhile, 20.6 percent of the public sought clarification through government websites.

On the other hand, some people do nothing when receiving information containing hoaxes. Approximately 12.2 percent of the public chose to ignore or not seek any references after receiving a hoax.

The 2021 Digital Literacy Survey depicts general media usage and the digital literacy conditions of Indonesian society. The total number of respondents in this survey was 10,000 (national), with 7,565 respondents from the Western region, 2,000 from the Central region, and 435 from the Eastern region. The proportion of respondents in each region follows the 2020 population census data from the Central Bureau of Statistics.