JAKARTA: Indonesia launched a new cyber security agency on Wednesday as the world’s biggest Muslim majority country moves to tackle online religious extremism and a flood of fake news on social media.

Millions of Indonesians are going online for the first time just as concern about Internet hoaxes reaches a fevered pitch.

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