Indonesian police announced on Thursday, the arrest of 14 members of a network called the “Muslim Cyber Army,” which they say had been using hacking, online misinformation campaigns, and hate speech to push the world’s fourth most populous country in a more conservative direction. The suspects are accused of defamation, spreading false reports, racial and religious discrimination, among other crimes. On Monday night, February 26, police arrested a university lecturer for sharing fake item about the murder of a muezzin (the man who calls Muslims to prayer from the minaret of a mosque). Last year, Indonesian police also arrested three members of Saracen group, an online “syndicate” accused of creating and spreading hoaxes and hate speech for money. Observers say the group played a key role in the election of former education minister Anies Baswedan over Basuki, a Chinese Christian, in the Jakarta gubernatorial elections in April 2017.