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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) drew attention to challenges in the digital space that have increasingly become larger and urged all sides to fill the cyber space with positive content.

"Challenges in the digital space have increasingly become larger, very large. Negative content continues to surface. Crimes in the digital space also continue to increase," Jokowi remarked while addressing the virtual launch of the National Digital Literacy Program in Jakarta on Thursday.

The president noted that negative content, such as hoax news, online fraud, gambling, child sexual exploitation, cyber harassment, hate speech, and radicalism content, had emerged in the digital space. The nation must stay alert for all types of negative content that can threaten the nation’s union and cohesion.

"We are all obliged to continue to minimize negative content and flood the digital space with positive content," he affirmed.

To this end, all sides must increase the public's digital intelligence to enable them to create extensive creative and educative content that placate the situation and disseminate the message of peace, he stated.

The digital space must also be used to boost economic activities, he noted.

The president appealed to all sides to make optimum use of the internet to boost productivity. For instance, micro, small, and medium entrepreneurs can enhance their capacity by benefiting from the marketing network on the internet.  (Antaranews)