Indonesia: No all-embracing laws yet to curb interference

Election-related murals warning against fake news on a wall in Jakarta earlier this year, ahead of Indonesia’s elections on April 17. ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR
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Indonesia has rules to handhold foreigners who are keen to observe its political affairs, and had enacted a law in 2008 to deal with disinformation and fake news spread through the Internet.

In elections, external observers are invited to see from close quarters how the world's third-largest democracy conducts its polls.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 07, 2019, with the headline Indonesia: No all-embracing laws yet to curb interference. Subscribe