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Government critics and activists allegedly criminalized by the use of the controversial ITE Law has left them traumatized, with personal and professional setbacks, and often without legal recourse under the current system to clear their names.
The Jakarta Police’s cyber unit questioned government critic Ravio Patra on Thursday about the alleged hacking of his WhatsApp account after he was charged for incitement after a message was sent from his number on April 22 calling for nationwide riots.
Independent researcher Ravio Patra has filed a pretrial motion against the Jakarta Police for the latter’s move to detain and accuse him of inciting riots through a WhatsApp message broadcast following an alleged hacking of his account in April.
Activists have raised the alarm over a growing climate of fear in Indonesia following the arrests of a number of people critical of the government as it scrambles to weather the social and economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Independent researcher Ravio Patra, who had been critical of a presidential staffer, was arrested on Wednesday and released Friday after being accused of inciting riots through WhatsApp.
His arrest will likely go down in history as one of the worst blunders made by the National Police in their war against fake news and online hate speech, the ailments of the digital world that activists say are used by the powers that be as a pretext to undercut civil rights.
