Democracy in Post-Truth Era: The Public Sphere Practice in Indonesian Presidential Election, 2019

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201219.059How to use a DOI?

Keywords

post-truth, social media, public sphere, democracy in Indonesia, President Election

Abstract

Recently, the practice of public sphere on social media has existed as the distinguishing reality in the post-truth era. Many dynamics of political life and society in this era illustrate that emotional attractiveness is more influential in shaping public opinion than facts, the existing reality. The reality and truth disappear due to the emotion of an interest from party and some group affiliations. Also information on the internet makes it accessible to the public. Democracy in Indonesia now can be considered running properly. The election held every 5 years indicates that the condition of democracy is fine or even better. Wisely, there are a lot of pros and cons cases happening in Indonesia each time election is held, for example in the 2019 election. This study tries to find out how the practice of public sphere on social media is in the post-truth era particularly in the presidential election, 2019. The method used here is mix-method: quantitative through social media observation and then followed with a qualitative method to get deeply on the social aspects of the public sphere. The case chosen is the moment of the 2019 Indonesian presidential election and reviewed from existing relevant social media, the candidate’s social media. Finally, this research found that the practice of public sphere on social media in the post-truth era show some perspectives and the truth according to each party and agent.

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© 2020, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Juan Malik Frederick Turpyn
AU  - Muchammad Nasucha
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/21
TI  - Democracy in Post-Truth Era: The Public Sphere Practice in Indonesian Presidential Election, 2019
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICOSAPS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 389
EP  - 396
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201219.059
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201219.059
ID  - Turpyn2020
ER  -