Hate speech is likely to intensify on social media ahead of Indonesia’s election

As Indonesia’s general election draws closer, the spread of hate speech targeting political figures is expected to intensify, similar to what happened in the 2019 election. The UN defines hate speech as any communication that attacks an individual or uses pejorative or discriminatory language against an individual based on their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, colour, descent or gender. During the 2019 election, there were more than 200,000 mentions on X containing hate speech targeted at the presidential, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, in addition to their vice presidential candidates. That accounted for around 0......

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