Page 284 - Pure Life 15
P. 284
(
/
310 PURE LIFE, Vol.5. No.15, (Rabi' al-Thani 1440. Azar 1397. December 2018)
Figure 6. Indonesia Social Media Users per January 2017
Source: ASEAN UP
Based on the Figure 3 and Figure 4, it is clearly
shown that Cyberspace in Indonesia is dominated by
young milenial generation users and Facebook is still
number one favorite social media for indonesians as
also shown in Figure 5. Meanwhile in Figure 6, in
January 2017 there are more than half of Indonesian
population using the Internet. Based on author’s
preliminary observation in Jakarta and big cities in
Indonesia, at least a young people has one smartphone
that can connect the user easily to the Cyberspace.
Privacy and human rights can be misused in
Cyberspace. Imam Bukhari, PBUH, ever said that
“Knowledge first, before acting and speaking”, but
regarding many hoax or fake news spreading in
Indonesia nowadays, author thinks that moslem
majority in Indonesia groups must think once more
about Islamic values. Based on one academic
data, there are at least 47,3 milion people becoming
victims of Cybercrimes, as shown:
