Prabowo Reveals Foreign Tactics to Attack Indonesia, Issues This Warning

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - President Prabowo Subianto has once again warned of new tactics employed by foreign nations to colonise Indonesia. The emergence of new technologies such as AI is seen as potentially being used to create disturbances on social media.

Prabowo assessed that foreign nations even utilise Indonesians for their own interests, inciting disruptions against Indonesian society.

“We are being disturbed and colonised by foreign nations. There are always our own brothers and sisters, from our own nation, who make it easier for those foreign nations to colonise us, to plunder our wealth. To make us slaves, our own brothers and sisters do that too,” he said.

The attitude of envy and resentment among Indonesians, according to Prabowo, is exploited to sow division on social media. Technology is then used to make criticisms appear en masse.

Certain parties, for example, use tools to bring up issues on social media through thousands of accounts.

“Now the problem is a bit with technology. With current technology, AI, artificial intelligence, with digital informatics technology, one person can have 1,000 accounts. They can buy tools, not too expensive, from 1,000 this can be multiplied again,” said Prabowo.

This social media frenzy is referred to by him as an echo chamber. This turmoil is vulnerable to exploitation by parties seeking to damage Indonesia.

“It seems to become a bit troublesome, 100 people, 200 people, 1,000 people, 5,000 people. They can create a commotion. This is called an echo chamber, it’s in intelligence studies. How to destroy another country. In the past, send troops, bombs. Now, maybe not necessary. The game is through social media, slander and hoaxes,” said Prabowo.