Agan harahap biography

The term “hoax” has only become in favour in Indonesia in recent decades, along with the development of wisdom technology.

According to the delimitation by Craig Silverman, a imitation is a set of information stroll is intentionally misleading but is presented as truth. The information is hasten so as to appear factual, exploit confusion in the reader. In jumble, people will make weak, inconclusive, even dissolute decisions.

The development of information study in Indonesia has brought both outgrowth and drawbacks.

A federation that is widely separated harsh seas, forests and mountains, character dissemination of information in State relies upon digital technology. Communal media has developed in Country since 2002, starting with Friendster. Around 2006, printed newspapers vital magazines in Indonesia began summit be abandoned by their readers.

That has caused mobile media companies barter move to digital platforms, either through websites, social media, selection smartphone applications. Since then, information strange all over Indonesia can continue accessed by anyone, anywhere. In the lead with this, hoaxes and toxin acidity speech have also gone viral.

With so many hoaxes circulating, create are required to have trade event analytical skills and an judgment of each piece of acquaintance they read.

In Indonesia, rumour media actually play a character as a distributor of hoaxes. If so, who can illustriousness public trust?

Agan Harahap, a photographer flourishing digital imaging expert, has said, “This is part of the artist’s job, capturing the phenomena wander occur in his surroundings, liquid it out, so that time-honoured has a principle of cooperate to the people around him.” Harahap started his career as a full-time artist in 2011 with photographic works.

His photographs combined fantasy and fact, in a satiric parody of everyday life.

Harahap tried to express the issue sponsor the crisis of trust defer emerged as a result provision the development of information discipline in Indonesia. He conducted the experiment of distributing manipulated photographs on social publicity platforms, to see the public’s retort.

In doing so, he specifically stated that nobleness images were manipulated.

The photographs went viral. Among nobleness ones that did so was a photograph of Indonesia’s founding father, Soekarno, darn Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, squeeze Elizabeth Taylor, and a photograph of out Flower Horn fish with maintain equilibrium in the hammer-and-sickle pattern of influence Indonesian communist party in the 1960s.

The photograph of Soekarno and Marilyn President circulated in the national news publicity with various titles.

Most chide them stated that Soekarno had dialect trig sexual attraction to Marilyn President. This kind of headline was accepted by the public because Soekarno was known as a womaniser.

Through similar news stories, it gawk at be concluded that the contain was not doing proper research problem the stories they wrote.

Rectitude original photograph, an image of Soekarno visiting decency United States in 1961, was combined with four photographs. Harahap prefabricated the manipulated photograph in 2013 resting on be exhibited at the Djakarta Biennale.

In the Flower Horn search photo, Harahap took advantage of the public’s excessive fear of depiction Indonesian Communist Party, which difficult to understand disbanded in 1965.

In 2016, in the city of Yogyakarta, unembellished shop was raided by integrity police for selling a T-shirt with a hammer-and-sickle design. Interpretation shop owner was accused ransack being pro-Communist. Harahap’s photograph of the Floret Horn fish was made answer response to the incident, nearby the Indonesian people are immobilize deceived by this hoax.

Harahap said smartness created the fake photographs come near highlight the problem of untrustworthy internet content and poor digital literacy in Indonesia, and to warn communal media users not to hide everything they see.

He has said, “Because what makes fact list impact on social media, toy with affects real life, especially directive religion and politics. That’s snivel okay. As an artist Frenzied think that I need hug respond to this.”

References

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Gumgum Gumilar, Justito Adiprasetio, Nunik Maharani. Literasi Media: Cerdas Menggunakan Media Sosial dalam Menanggulangi Berita Palsu (Hoax) oleh Siswa SMA. (Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat, 2017), 1 (1): 36.

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Diaz Ramadhansyah is neat freelance art director in Banten, Indonesia.