Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Life, Innovation, Change and Knowledge (ICLICK 2018)

Hate Speech in Election: Increasing Trends and Concerns

Authors
Husnul Isa Harahap
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Husnul Isa Harahap
Available Online July 2019.
DOI
10.2991/iclick-18.2019.10How to use a DOI?
Keywords
hate speech; regional elections; general election, democracy; freedom of expression
Abstract

Simultaneous Regional Elections in 2018 is not a new phenomenon in Indonesia. This election is a mandate of UU 8 of 2015. According to UU 8 of 2015, the simultaneous regional election will be held in several waves, and the first wave has been held in 2015 and 2017. However, there were different phenomena that arose before the 2018 election. One of them was the emergence of hate speech. This study discusses the potential of hate speech in simultaneous elections in 2018. Methods of data collection in this study is literature study and descriptive analysis method. This study found that there is a potential of hate speech in election in 2018. These potentials can be described in terms of the actors, media and hate speech forms that can occur. The potential can occur on the side of the actors in a broad sense. Potential media used as media hate speech also varied. Similarly, from the possibility of the form of hate speech that occurs.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Life, Innovation, Change and Knowledge (ICLICK 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-762-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iclick-18.2019.10How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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