HOW NEW MEDIA BECOMES A PLATFORM FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

This paper aims to write the phenomenon of new media become a platform for public participation in Indonesia. The development of new media led to changes in the pattern of social movements. This paper tries to explain activists making a movement to reject government policies through an online petition (Change.org). Activists mobilize the rejection of the protest movement through the hashtag #RefuseBillOfMusic discuss on Change.org. this movement managed to get support from people.