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View all search resultsResearch from Chatfield and Brajawidagda published in 2012 stated that government agencies responsible for emergency and disaster services used social media for early warnings and clarifying often alarming misinformation. This function would cease to exist if the internet is blocked.
Complaints have been filed against the internet service disruption, including from the Indonesian Internet Service Providers Association (APJII), which criticized the fiber optic cable-cutting by the city administration without giving notice to service providers.
Indeed social media played a part in flooding the the internet with information related to incidents inside and outside Papua. But the government’s restriction policy has hardly helped calm Papua; rather it has increased the possibility of human rights violations occuring there.
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