Have you ever heard about the death of Indonesian student in Singapore recently ? David Hartanto Wijaya suddenly became a famous name in Indonesia. FYI Singapore’s coronary court just made decision that the death was a suicide instead of murder / homicide.
Why David’s case can be a so wellknown case in Indonesia or may be in Singapore now ? The reasons I think mainly because Indonesian media put a lot of attention on it and many online citizens actively supporting David’s family to find the truth out of it ( such as Iwan Piliang,Christovita Wiloto,OC Kaligis and thousand if not million of other online citizens ).
Even current Vice Presiden,Jusuf Kalla shows his support and the next Vice President,Boediono also shows his support ( during his recent visit to Singapore ).
What I would like to write not about a debate whether it’s a suicide or not. It remains a secret now ( and may be will forever be ) and I think enough people discussing and investigating for it. Other angle on this side is how online citizens ( in Indonesia ) can be a great advocating group. This trend also can be seen during recent Prita’s case ( which not fully solved yet ).
Indonesian online citizens are so diverse (affiliations,background,motivation and etc. ). Recent fantastic growth on Facebook's membership and usage of Blackberry is a contributing factor on the existence of new Indonesian online citizens group. Many “active” online citizens voice out their opinions and advocating something via Facebook,mailing list and etc. Sometimes the voices are reasonable and apolitical. But sometimes the voices can be so unreasonable and clearly show conflict of interest ( for example supporting strongly and I think blindly one presidential candidate over others ). On David’s case the online citizens managed to unite and direct the opinion in Indonesia that David did not commit suicide and something was wrong here. I won’t comment on this more as I don’t know the full fact of it. There are 2 points I want to show here. The high side of this unifying and directing is the creation of public /national's interest and support on David’s case. The low side of this unifying and directing opinion to one side can be a prejudice and the spread of multiple conspiracy theories.
Well,we'll see more how this trend will develop further in Indonesia. Hopefully it will bring more channels to voice out concern,opinion and etc in this democratic and beautiful country. And hopefully it won’t be hijacked by conflict of interest and other malice intentions on the name of online citizens.
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