Assessing Government's Social-Environmental Accountability in Industrial Revolution 4.0 Era: A Review of Indonesian Setting

摘要

This paper presents a review related to how society, in industry 4.0 era, evaluates and criticizes the government's social-environmental accountability issues in the Indonesian setting. In doing so, this paper introduces the political economy of accountability (PEAc) theoretical view in discussing the way society criticize and make a social movement in social media network upon the government's failure to account the social-environmental problems. The paper found that society needs an alternative way of assessing the government's accountability, especially in facing a flood of information that often covers the substance of an issue in the digital era today. Thus, mapping and measuring the social media conversation by using an app could be a worth solution to test the reliability of government accountability information on social-environmental issues.