When cybertroopers shape the crowd: online conformity in Indonesia

Siregar, Moses (2025) When cybertroopers shape the crowd: online conformity in Indonesia. LSE Southeast Asia Blog (06 Oct 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Cyber troop operations in Indonesia don’t persuade citizens with facts — they manufacture consensus through visibility, secrecy, and conformity. Drawing on a field experiment with over 900 Instagram users in Bogor City, Moses H. Siregar (recipient of the 2024/25 SEAC Student Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) explains how buzzers subtly shift online behaviour and why this matters for democratic accountability.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2025 12:45
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2025 12:45
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130217

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