Jakarta Lawan Hoaks (Jalahoaks) is a regional governmental fact-checking institution and has been striving to combat potential disinformation and misinformation about Covid-19 that started spreading sporadically in social media. It’s for certain that we can’t stop the torrent of information in this digital era, that is why we need to constantly monitor and actively participate.

Demographic data in Indonesia shows that the majority of social media users are aged 16-24, accounting for 64.4%. Concerns about the increasing distribution of information in various media have led Jalahoaks to direct young people obtaining healthy and positive information.

In its implementation, Jalahoaks collaborates with Jakarta Regional Officials (OPDs), independent institutions, practitioners and the central government in implementing it to respond to developing issues.

Jalahoaks responds as quickly as possible to the ongoing issues that has an urgency for social stability. For example, it provides a fast response to Covid, Rohingya refugees, chain of child kidnapping in Jakarta, electoral issues, etc.

Not only undertaking fact clarification, Jalahoaks carries out digital literacy outreach by involving women, MSMEs, youth at schools, academics, and various regional officials in Jakarta.

Last but not least, neutrality has been the core of Jalahoaks since the beginning. This way, Jalahoaks can provide dependable information on various issues in Jakarta without any hidden interest behind it. This is the main civic motive that leads to the growth of Jalahoaks as a fact-checking and digital literacy education media for the people of Jakarta.

https://jalahoaks.jakarta.go.id/

• Jakarta, Indonesia

• Youth
• Women, Elderly, Disabled People, and People of Jakarta in General

This program is replicable by any government entity of interest.

This program is sustainable by concept because of how the trend of information that will never stop, and false information will be there between them. Jalahoaks exist to provide dependable information to reduce false information.

This project consider many of the principles of WSIS as in freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, shared responsibility.