International Seminar on “Cyber Troops and Computational Propaganda in the Indonesian Presidential Election 2019” at CSEAS, Kyoto University
Date: Saturday, July 20nd, 2019
Time: 16:00 -19:00
Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Hall, 2rd floor Seminar Room
Presenter: Ismail Fahmi (Drone Emprit & PT. Media Kernels Indonesia)
Moderator: Masaaki Okamoto (CSEAS Kyoto University)
ABSTRACT:
The last Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election shown a different landscape of cyber war compared to its previous 2014 presidential election. In 2014, the use of social media and online media to create propaganda during campaigns was relatively new. However, in 2019 the number of people engaged in the cyber war is significantly increased especially from the opposition side. The use of bots to manipulate public opinion by amplifying or combating political content, disinformation, hate speech, and junk news was also increased in both parties.
In this presentation I will present how cyber troops from both parties (incumbent and opposition) engaged cyber wars to win their campaign messages. Furthermore using Drone Emprit, our big data analytics tool for online media and social media, I will show how computational propaganda using sophisticated bots, patterns, and techniques to trick the social media platforms was engaged.
I also will explain our efforts using the Drone Emprit analytics, that regularly and continuously analyzed the conversation and shared our findings through article posts in social media and mainstream media during the campaign periods. Our purpose was to build public awareness about the situation of the cyber war in order to they can see how hidden teams conduct computational propaganda that was targeted to win their opinion.
At the end of the presentation, I will conclude with lesson learned from the Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election.
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CSEAS: Cyber troop and computational propaganda
1. Cyber Troops and
Computational Propaganda in
the Indonesian Presidential
Election 2019
Ismail Fahmi, S.T., M.A., Ph.D.
Director Media Kernels Indonesia (Drone Emprit)
Lecturer at the University of Islam Indonesia
Ismail.fahmi@gmail.com
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
CSEAS KYOTO UNIVERSITY - KYOTO
20 JULY 2019
2. KyoAni: MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY
Please accept my deepest condolences. My prayers are with you
and the families who lost their loved ones.
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1992 – 1997 Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering, ITB, Indonesia
2003 – 2004 Master, Information Science, University of Groningen, NL
2004 – 2009 Doctor, Information Science, University of Groningen, NL
2009 – Now Engineer at Weborama (Paris/Amsterdam)
2014 – Now Founder PT. Media Kernels Indonesia, a Drone Emprit Company
2015 – Now Consultant at Perpustakaan Nasional, Inisiator Indonesia OneSearch
2017 – Now Lecturer at the IT Magister Program of the Universitas Islam Indonesia
Ismail Fahmi, S.T., M.A., Ph.D.
Ismail.fahmi@gmail.com
9. COMPUTATIONAL PROPAGANDA
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Since 2012 until now, we
have seen bots, algorithms
and other forms of
automation are used by
political actors in countries
around the world to
manipulate public opinion
over major social networking
platforms, such as Twitter,
Facebook, Instagram, and
YouTube.
10. CYBER TROOPS
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CYBER TROOPS: government,
military or political party teams
committed to developing or
manipulating public opinion
over social media.
11. THE PURPOSES OF CYBER TROOPS AND
COMPUTATIONAL PROPAGANDA
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Manipulates public opinion to
promote the interests of
government, opposition, or
trolls.
Interests Interests
TROLLS
Interests
15. THE CASES OF TWO
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN INDONESIA
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2014 2019
16. QUESTIONS
• How the cyber troops and computational propaganda started in
Indonesian political events?
• How they worked during the 2019 Indonesian Presidential
Election?
• Some pointers:
• The use of computational propaganda since 2014 in Indonesia
• The changes in digital polarization
• Bots and black campaign
• Cyber troops and supporters
• Information arbitrage
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44. POLLING ROBOTS
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Ater the leader of Mahaka Group,
Erick Thohir officially becomes
the head of the campaign team
for Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin in
the 2019 Election, who you will
vote for?
1. Jokowi-Maruf Amin (Retweet)
2. Prabowo-Sandiaga (Like)
51. TALKING ABOUT JOKOWI
Interaction Rate
2.91Pro 01
Pro 02
Bots
Bots
Bots
Bots
Bots
Bots
Bots
Bots Iklan
Bots
Bots
Total Users
293,041
52. TALKING ABOUT PRABOWO
Interaction Rate
6.30
Pro 01
Pro 02
Bots Pro 02
Bots Nasdem
Bots MetroTV
Bots
Bots Iklan
Bots Pro 01 Pro 02
Total Users
177,394
53. TEST: #JKWTakutPaparkanMisiVisi v.s. #PrabowoTakutTesNgaji
Pro 01 Pro 02
#PrabowoTakutTesNgaji #JKWTakutPaparkanMisiVisi
Interaction Rate
12.13
Total Users
15,052
Interaction Rate
4.08
Total Users
10,956
102. HOW IT WORKS
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STEPS:
• Registration
• Propose keywords
• Analysis and publication
Dashboard
Access
REQUIREMENTS:
• Publish their analysis for public
using any medium.
USERS
• Students
• Researchers
• Lecturers
• Journalists
• Blogger
• Hoax buster
Admin
105. SUMMARY
• Cyber troops and computational propaganda has been used in
Indonesia since as early as 2012.
• The main drivers of the activities are political events, especially
general elections.
• However, after the 2014 presidential election, the polarization is
getting bigger, supported by many new cyber troops and better
computational propaganda techniques.
• The platform mainly used by cyber troops and computational
propaganda is Twitter, then incorporates blogs, Facebook, IG,
YouTube, and now WhatsApp to disseminate their messages.
• In the future, cyber troops and computational propaganda will
likely still be used with better techniques and platforms.
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