Akhyar Yusuf Lubis’s scientific contributions

This article discusses the hoax phenomenon plagues this nation amid the heating up political tension approaching the simultaneous election of head of region. This situation is clearly very dangerous for the survival of a healthy nation and country. The appropriate thinking solution and strategic steps must be pursued by involving all parties. In terms of ethics, the concept of homo poieticus suggested by Luciano Floridi seems to be used as answer of this problems. This research aimed to reflect on the concept of homo poieticus understood as an ethical agent, as the creator of situation influenced by ethical appreciation. The method used was hermeneutics. The findings show that the figure of homo poeiticus is a moral agent that not only focuses on the consequences (a posteriori) of the actions conducted, but highly consider the process (a priori). The figure of homo poieticus that has the poietic awareness and ability should be able to create a conducive environment and full of goodness by avoiding the increase of enthropy in the information ecosystem. Every moral agent who becomes homo poieticus will always strive in accordance with his ability and awareness to create, maintain and preserve the coolness if the information ecosystem. Background The hoax phenomenon in Indonesia is emerging amid the political temperature that heats up approaching the simultaneous election of head of region. The penetration of issue of SARA (ethnic, religious, racial and inter ethnic) in the hoax information adds to the heat of the political temperature in Indonesia. This situation is clearly very dangerous for the survival of a healthy nation and country. The danger of hoax that can lead to conflict social segregation certainly cannot be underestimated. Because hoax and damage the information ecosystem and deceive the social order. The presence of Law of Information and Electronic Transaction (UU ITE) that regulates public information activities in the information environment (infosphere) does not seem to be a powerful repressive tool of the country in solving this problem. The people and state are 'rowdy' facing this 'hoax' issues and appear to have difficulties in understanding and solving the outbreak of this false information. The support of information and communication technology (ICT) adds 'energy' to the hoax to multiply and spread massively. It is clear that ICT has created digital environment (e-nvironment) that poses new challenges to our understanding of the world. The digital revolution, the effects of rapid ICT growth, has changed the face of the world rapidly in such a way and in the scope that was untouched before. This revolution has moved the world and its inhabitants to live in an atmosphere full of information and wrestle in the process of information life cycle. Every day, information is created, processed, managed and utilized in an effort to fulfill human information needs. The world of human life becomes a world that is surrounded and constructed by information. Information becomes an integral part and very filling up the human life. Human life has been completely mediated by information and they cannot life without information. Information has changed human relationships with the universe and human relationships with other human beings both in individual and community contexts. Information has changed the way humans exist in the world and simultaneously altering human consciousness. The fundamental change behind this revolution is about how we become inforg (information organism) within the infosphere. We become more sensitive on our status as inforg. The terminology of inforg is a neologism presented by Luciano Floridi that describing humans and other information entities as an information organism that inhabit the infosphere. In this position man has lost his privileged place in the anthropocentric world, and slowly realizes and accepts that we are inforg. Being inforg means we are not so different from other artificial intelligence artifacts, as Turing claims that machines are objects or artifacts that can think and have intelligence. In fact, artificial intelligence artifacts have one thing in common with us, both living in an informative environment, or what Floridi calls as the infosphere. Infosphere is a global space of information, which includes cyberspace as well as classic mass media such as libraries and archives. Thus, the infosphere is

This article discusses the concept of information metaphysics, a study in the growing and emerging information philosophy, with particular focus on physical information (environment information) and tracing some metaphysical ideas to explain the nature of physical information. In this context, information is not viewed as semantic, but rather seen as an ontic. This research aimed to reflect upon the concept of information metaphysics that view information as a reality (ecological information) in an attempt to make it an ontological footing for library and information science. The method used was critical hermeneutics. The findings showed that information metaphysics can extend the ontological status of libraries and information science in which information is no longer seen as simply semantic but also ontical (metaphysical). Thus, information is interpreted as information, a metaphysical concept initiated by Norbert Wiener who negates matter and energy. This view is expected to build and strengthen the ontological status of Library and Information Science. BACKGROUND The information revolution, the rapid ICT growth effect, has changed the face of the world rapidly and in a scope that has never been touched before. This revolution has moved the world and its inhabitants to live in an atmosphere full of information and dabbling in the information lifecycle process. Every day information is created, processed, managed, and utilized in an effort to fulfill human needs of information. The world of human life becomes a world that is surrounded and constructed by information. Information becomes an integral part and painting the human life. Human life has completely mediated by information and they can not live without information. Information