Legal Literacy - This article discusses how virality affects law enforcement in Indonesia. In the digital age, events that go viral on social media often accelerate and influence legal processes. From raising public awareness to influencing judges' decisions, the phenomenon of virality has become a supremacy in the legal system. However, this article also highlights the risks, such as the spread of false information and public pressure that can affect justice. This discussion delves into the balance between the role of social media in civic engagement and the need for fair and objective law enforcement.

Virality: A Foundation of Law Enforcement

In the current era, virality has become an instant method to carve justice. With technological modernity, everything can be uploaded and traced on social media. Wherever, whenever, whatever the situation, everyone can know what is happening in parts of the world. In fact, technology also permeates the legal process in Indonesia. This is evidenced by the fact that something that goes viral can create a fast legal process and even collective awareness for law enforcers. The power of the "virality principle" in the legal process has even led to the emergence of the hashtag "no viral, no justice" on one of the social media platforms. It seems that virality is a shortcut for victims to seize their rights.

Of course, to achieve a specific goal, an organizing exponent is needed, and so is law. The law cannot work automatically even though there is a norm stipulated in Article 1 Paragraph (3) 1945 Constitution which stipulates that Indonesia is a rule of law, there must still be a role for law enforcers in the process. Unfortunately, now, law enforcers themselves are the main actors in undermining the law. For this reason, the principle of virality is present as a critic and helper of law enforcers in carrying out their duties. It can also be said as a form of public distrust created by law enforcement officials.

Virality can be categorized as the highest legal supremacy in the current legal situation. Unfortunately, virality is more trusted by the public in processing a case than reporting it to the authorities. Then, if this continues to occur in the process of establishing a legal culture, what impact will it have on law enforcement?

A swift legal process is something that Indonesian society dreams of. With virality connecting the power of netizens' concern with the awareness of law enforcers, the legal process handled can be resolved quickly. Criminal entities, such as sexual harassment, fraud, theft, robbery, Trafficking in Persons (TPPO), and even corruption are quickly known by netizens, making it easier for officers to conduct investigations. As a result, trending topics used by netizens have an impact on the performance of law enforcers. Whereas before going viral, the law enforcers did not know about the incident because there was no police report.

Creating Collective Awareness for Law Enforcers

Another consequence of a case going viral on social media is that it creates collective awareness for law enforcers. How could it not? A case that goes viral will actually lead many people to freely express their thoughts fluently with anonymous accounts.

Recently, a viral case targeted the customs agency, which was considered to be "playing in the dark" regarding the fantastic nominal import duties. This was responded to quickly by the Director General of Customs and Excise as the authority being highlighted, then explaining in detail the case that befell the viral shoe importer based on applicable regulations. Just imagine, because of an error in listing the ICF price, the importer had to pay tens of millions of fines. Suggestively, this left a mark on the minds and hearts of the authorities, if they were caught in the sky-high fine even though it was a mistake of the shipping service.

Facilitating Law Enforcers in Finding Data

Netizens' expertise in exploring social media timelines on someone's personal account is undeniable. Posts from previous years, the perpetrator's personal data, the chronology of events, the victim's condition, even the process of the crime occurring can all be searched and found in a short time. No wonder, if "the power of netizen" greatly helps law enforcers in collecting the data and information needed for the investigation process. In fact, it is not uncommon for the discovery of missing people or goods to be found first by netizens. Apart from that, it should be noted that not all news from netizens is true. It is not uncommon for the information to be hoaxes and gimmicks. So it must be researched and investigated further by law enforcers, especially police officers who are the first figures in the legal processing stage.

Influence on Decisions Taken

The more viral the case, the crazier the actions of netizens. This is indicated to affect the existence of law enforcers, including judges, in making decisions. Although not openly, posts of partiality on social media will affect judges as ordinary human beings. Basically, something that goes viral is a combination of real events and netizens' perceptions. The impact is another difficulty in determining which decision is right to implement with various diverse considerations.

Various consequences of the rampant virality in the current era greatly affect the judicial process and even law enforcers, such as helping the judicial process run quickly so that the police only continue the work of amazing netizens. However, not all good things are obtained from this viral method, if you are not careful in giving opinions and prejudices, it will cause slander, vigilantism, pressure on perpetrators, privacy breaches, hoax news, and others. Therefore, awareness is needed from various groups to be wise in using social media for community involvement (civic engagementcivic engagement

) in helping each other.It is also hoped that law enforcers will evaluate their performance in handling legal cases, not meaning to allow the public to be the controller of the law. Law enforcers should improve themselves because after all the hashtag "no viral no justice