The Huffington Post
09 June 2016
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- Indonesia’s Cyber Warriors Battle ISIS With Memes, Tweets And WhatsApp
Indonesia’s Cyber Warriors Battle ISIS With Memes, Tweets And WhatsApp
Bisri Adib, a writer and translator in the small Indonesian town of Rombang is one of 500 or so Indonesian “cyber warriors” who are using social media to counter the ISIS propaganda machine. “There is no state-induced politicization of religion in Indonesia,” said RSIS Prof Rohan Gunaratna, a security studies professor based in NTU Singapore. “So the Jakarta government is not officially countering these foreign influences or promoting moderation and toleration.”
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