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Jakarta gubernatorial candidates fight smear campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter 

Indra Budiari (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Thu, March 23, 2017

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Jakarta gubernatorial candidates fight smear campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter The members of Ahok's campaign team. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak A.)

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n the upcoming gubernatorial election, the social media team of the Jakarta gubernatorial candidates are using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to spread their campaign messaging and consider the social media platforms to be the real battlefield. 

They are not promoting programs of Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and Anies Baswedan as the Jakarta gubernatorial candidates but instead disseminating smear campaigns. 

(Read also: Campaign social media accounts to close for cooling-off period)

Hariadhi, Ahok's supporter from social media volunteers group Jasmev said on Thursday that smear campaigns against the incumbent governor have become more intense.

“I can find a smear campaign every three hours on social media, but we don’t have to clarify every single of them,” Hariadhi said in a discussion, adding that the team would make clarifications if the smear campaign could affect voters.

“Last week, for example, social media accounts claimed Ahok had been involved in the e-ID graft mega scandal. We then make a clarification that the prosecutor did not mention Ahok’s name at all during the hearing,” he continued.

Musa, a social media team member of Anie Baswedan, said that the team had made special efforts to clarify improper content on social media. (dan)  

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