Lemhannas Warns of Escalating

A man assembles a tally box in Depok on February 14,2019 (B Universe Photo/Joanito De Saojoao).

Jakarta. Indonesia needs to keep an eye out for spiraling identity politics as the 2024 general election nears, the National Resilience Institute or Lemhannas warned.

Identity politics refers to the political method of utilizing one’s identifying aspects such as ethnic and religious backgrounds to attract votes. And this is something that Indonesia may have to handle next year, as candidates and supporters attempt to sway the general public prior to they cast their votes in 2024.

” The three greatest difficulties in Indonesia’s political escalations for 2023 and 2024 are identity politics, misinformation and hoaxes, along with hate speech connected to identity politics,” Lemhannas governor Andi Widjajanto said at a year-end press briefing.

Andi required the government to resolve hate speech and identity politics. Whatever guideline the federal government enforces still needs to take into account liberty of speech– a critical component of a democratic nation.

” They normally occur on digital platforms. So I think the government can impose stronger guidelines or play a bigger function to deal with these concerns, but without clashing with the democratic principles of flexibility of speech,” Andi stated.

” Digital literacy will also become crucial to mitigate these political escalations,” he added.

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Recently, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo alerted the Elections Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) about how identity politics might be harmful to the culturally varied Indonesia.

” We can not take identity politics, faith politicization, along with politics on tribal affiliations, religious beliefs, race, and social groups gently. We must not provide room for any of this. It is exceptionally dangerous, and provides a chance for others to break our country apart,” Jokowi said at a Bawaslu conference in Jakarta.

Bawaslu plans to keep an eye out for any scams and defamation of characters on social networks. Commenting on Bawaslu’s cyber authorities, Jokowi said “I agree with the strategy. The issue frequently begins with social networks [posts], which will later trigger the circumstance on the field to warm up.”

The governmental and legislative elections will take place on Feb. 14,2024 Regional elections for regional leaders are slated for Nov. 27, 2024.