Fun with Politics

IT may be difficult for people to imagine just how much influence Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Jan Koum have had on Indonesian politics. They did not personally intervene but the applications they created for the Internet have clearly connected hundreds of thousandsand maybe even millionsof Indonesians working in concert, fighting more or less for similar causes.

Zuckerberg's Facebook, Dorsey's Twitter, and Koum's WhatsApp were the 'strongest tools' that held together mass movements around the country, especially during the 2014 presidential election. Through social media programs, the silent majority of voters were transformed into people who voiced their views loudly.