On 15 September 2025, Safer Internet Lab was invited to a public forum, RealityCheck Indonesia, convened by the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI) in collaboration with the Development Policy Foundation (DPF) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. The forum, held in Jakarta, carried the theme “Cross-Border Insight Exchange: Navigating Risks of Disinformation and Misinformation.”Representing Safer Internet Lab, Alia Yofira, our Research Associate, joined the panel discussion alongside:

• Michał Kacewicz (Editor-in-Chief of Belsat.pl, former journalist at Newsweek, and author of four books on Euromaidan, Donbas War, and biographies of Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenka)
• Sylwia Szparkowska (former journalist at rp.pl: the leading Polish Daily, media creator, and media ecosystem expert)
• Pradipa P. Rasidi (Open Source Investigator at the Centre for Information Resilience)

During the discussion, Alia shared her view that recent disinformation narratives in Indonesia follow the same playbook used in 1965 and 1998. These include themes such as antek asing (foreign conspiracies), anti-communism, looting, and rape. Such narratives have been used to justify stronger state intervention.She also noted an alarming rise in AI-generated disinformation, which is now amplifying these narratives at an unprecedented speed.Alia emphasized the importance of systematic and inclusive multi-stakeholder interventions that not only counter harmful narratives in real time but also strengthen the overall resilience of all actors involved.