Jurnal Kependudukan Indonesia
2020: Edisi Spesial: Demografi dan COVID-19 di Indonesia

DATA ACTIVISM AND COVID-19 IN INDONESIA

Ibnu Nadzir (Pusat Penelitian Kemasyarakatan dan Kebudayaan, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Jul 2020

Abstract

The government’s inability to provide information in relation to COVID-19 in Indonesia, has stimulated grassroots efforts from society to develop data activism. These are the kind of activism that proliferates from modern social media ecosystem and utilizes data as the core of their movement. The article proposes that there are at least three forms of activism differentiated based on the actors, their main sources of data, and characteristic. These forms of activisms are aimed to provide data and information that could help both government and society to better mitigate the impact of pandemic. While data activism provides some hope among other grim outlook of COVID-19 management in Indonesia, the questions on its impacts are still looming under the contested authorities of information in Indonesia. 

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jki

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Humanities Education Environmental Science Public Health Social Sciences

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Jurnal Kependudukan Indonesia (JKI) is published by the Research Center for Population, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PPK-LIPI).JKI publishes research articles (in English and in Bahasa) and book reviews and publishes twice a year covering issue related to population studies. We are pleased to ...