Two Sides Of Social Media, What Should The Government Do?

JAKARTA - The development of technology is almost certain to have a positive impact, but of course there is also a negative side. It also happens on social media.

Expert Staff of the Minister of Communication and Information for Legal Affairs, Henri Subiakto, said that currently, social media is a place to facilitate human desires. But social media also has many problems.

"That is to bring up or what is called post-truth, namely the truth of all or everything as if it were true," said Henri in a webinar initiated by BAKTI Kominfo with the theme "Interaction and Collaboration in the Digital Room according to Ethics", quoted Saturday, August 14.

According to him, in the current era of digital transformation in Indonesia, everything needs to be prepared. These include starting from building digital infrastructure to strengthening human resources.

"And also create regulations to organize infrastructure or organize life in the future, related to digital there is the ITE law," he said.

He mentioned one example of a regulation currently being discussed by the government and the DPR, namely the draft law on the protection of personal data and other regulations.

"Although infrastructure development has not yet been completed, now internet users in Indonesia have reached 202.6 million, with a population of around 275 million internet users approaching 74 percent," he said.