OPPORTUNITY OR RISK? VILLAGE GOVERNMENT AND THE REALITY OF HANDLING INSULT CASES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: EVIDENCE FROM MAJASUKA VILLAGE GOVERNMENT, PALASAH DISTRICT, MAJALENGKA REGENCY
Keywords:
Defamation through social media, village government challenges, restorative justiceAbstract
This paper discusses the complexity of the village government in overcoming the problem of insults and defamation through social media committed by its citizens. Social media is now accessible to the wider community, so anyone can access social media. However, with the ease of accessing social media, there are positive sides and not a few negative sides, so that there are often events of unlawful acts, one of which is defamation through social media. By using a non-doctrinal approach, empirical qualitative design, primary data is collected through surveys, observations and interviews with parties related to the research and secondary data obtained from literature studies related to the problems in this paper. The research findings that the need for legal skills or the existence of village officials based on law and police scholars directs the village government away from being able to resolve citizen problems in family deliberations or with restorative justice, by resolving disputes outside the court. The direct implication is a challenge for village government officials.
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