Political Parties in Indonesia and the Internet: A comparative analysis (original) (raw)

IT based social media impacts on Indonesian general legislative elections 2014

The information technology's applications in cyberspace (the internet) are currently dominated by social media. The author investigates and explores the advantages of social media implementation of any political party in Indonesian general legislative elections 2014. There are twelve national political parties participating in the election as contestants plus three local political parties in Aceh. In this researh, auhtor focus on national politial parties only. The author visited, analyzed, and learnt the social media used by the contestants. Those social media are : 1) Facebook, 2) Twitter, and 3) YouTube. Author also compares the popularity of political parties on social media with the results of a real count. Then Author can discuss : 1) the impact of social media on political parties, 2) social media as a brand of political parties, 3) social media as political presentation, and 4) social media as virtual society. The results of this study indicate that Facebook is still a social media application that received high attention by the voters on a campaign of political parties. Indonesian's legislative elections won by parties that are using social media as part of their campaigns.

Political Parties Re-Disconnected? Websites and Social Media of Indonesian Political Parties

2014

Political parties of Indonesia today have created their own websites in which the patterns of the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) by political parties are much affected by the political and media system (Anstead and Chadwick, 2010; Ward and Gibson, 2010). What are the patterns of Indonesian political parties in utilizing websites for their political communications? The political culture, digital divides, and media system have shaped the practices of websites and social media of political practices. In the previous environment of media, citizens were disconnected from the membership of Indonesian political parties. New media, instead of giving more ways to let netizens engage and participate in political parties’ activities, treats netizens, once again, merely as passive parties’ message consumers. In other words, political parties are re-disconnected from their constituents after its first disconnection: the massive use of television for political campaign and...

Websites, Political Party, and Digital Democracy in Indonesia

Communication Technology (ICT)especially websites and political parties in the age of electronic democracy. As electronic democracy combines political communication, (informing, involving, connecting, and mobilizing) of the political parties' websites serve the roles and functions of political parties in government and as political organizations.

The role of online mass media as a tool for the 2019 political campaign in Indonesia

Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies)

Media is a tool to provide information to be broadcasted or circulated openly to the public. In the technology era, the has a very media significant role because it can influence the public's opinion as the society cannot be separated from technology. During the 'New Order' era, the authorities had censored the truth, thus forced the public to initiate regime changes that brought down the new order rulers. Then, the reformation era emerged, which prioritised public freedom, including freedom of the press and freedom of expression. This study used qualitative analysis assisted with the NVivo12 Plus application in the data analysis. The data was obtained from the internet, websites, and journals. This study explained a form of a political campaign that used the influence and impact of media to lead public opinion. This research also looked at the role of the mass media-mainly online media-in the 2019 political campaign. We found that the media's influence and role are significant and reliable to win votes and political contestation. In addition, the research also provided information about the 2019 presidential election.

SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE CONSTITUENT INTERACTION AND MOBILITY (CASE STUDY IN THE 2017 JAKARTA-INDONESIA GOVERNOR GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN

research , 2019

The use of social media in general election campaign in Indonesia becomes more common but the relationship between social media existence in political campaign and the final vote result still need to be scrutinized. Therefore this study aims to analyze with a systematic and empirical approach of the social media usage (Including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) by DKI Jakarta governor candidates for the 2017-2022 period. Based on the observations, we found that each DKI Jakarta governor candidate has had a popular social media account in Indonesia, namely Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Such media were used to in conducting political campaigns and interacting with their constituents. Based on in-depth analysis of the empirical data showed that the presence of social media in the political campaigns in Indonesia had a strong relationship with the final results of DKI Jakarta governor election. Relationship between the results of the general election and the popularity, participation, and activeness of candidates in using social media were shown not only in interaction quantity but also in quality of the political campaign contents. Furthermore social media popularity of the political parties which supported the candidates allegedly had a relationship with 2017 DKI Jakarta governor election results.

Communication Patterns Based on Social Media as a Political Marketing Strategy in Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle

2019

This research focus on the pattern of social media-based communication as a determinant of political marketing strategy on the organization of political parties in Indonesia. Research subjects were netizens either as members or administrators of political parties. They were party members and administrators who intensely speak to developments and issues of local election or chatting intensively to actual topics of concern or trending topic using whatApps, line, telegram, facebook applications. This research method using interpretive / qualitative paradigm which was studied based on netnography study. This method sought to deeply understand the life of the virtual community from the perspective of the perpetrator. The object of the netnographic study was netizens (members and administrators of political parties) with their activities and lives in a virtual world. Data were collected through site observation / broadcast / message service, in depth interview. Data were analyzed using site analysis and thematic analysis based on field data and processed with the help of NVIVO as a qualitative analysis tool. The result of this research that the communication patterns of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) were formatted in three types: vertical pattern (member-board), horizontal pattern (members and administrators) and diagonal pattern (member-board-member and board-member-board).

2019 Election Campaign Model in Indonesia Using Social Media

Webology, 2022

The presence of social media platforms, especially Twitter, in Indonesia since the 2014 and 2019 elections have been used as a campaign media used by political parties to change conventional campaign strategies into virtual campaigns that are more informative, interactive, and participatory. This paper will analyze Twitter social media used by political parties, including @PDI_Perjuangan, @Gerindra, @DPP_PPP, @PKSejahtera during the campaign from January to April in the 2019 General Election, with analysis tools using Nvivo 12Plus. Using big data analysis from the Twitter of political parties, we found several things: first, the various news posted during the campaign with the amount and intensity of the news and becoming a trending topic will affect the number of followers owned by political parties, the more often political parties post news it will affect voter segmentation, the number of likes for the message content, the number of followers, and the number of retweets. Second, ...

Online Media Trends on Political Party Sentiment Ahead of the 2024 Election in Indonesia

Journal of governance : jurnal ilmu pemerintahan Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, 2023

The purpose of this study is to /ind out the tendencies of Indonesian online media on political party sentiment before the 2024 election in Indonesia. Online media is a communication tool for political parties in providing narratives and brief descriptions of the maneuvers of the political parties themselves and the candidates they carry. This study uses a qualitative type, the method used is qualitative data analysis software (QDAS). 72 news documents from detik.com, tribunnews.com, pikiranrakyat.com, and kompas.com as the data sources for this research, news documents published from May to October 2022. Data analysis used the NVivo 12 plus device including sentiment analysis. The results of data analysis show that online media tends towards several political parties in Indonesia, including the tendency of political parties towards their presidential candidates, and /ive types of sentiment have their nominations. The results of this study state that a very positive type of sentiment is shown in Ganjar Pranowo. In addition, in the four online media, PDI P appears more frequently than the other 8 political parties. However, detik.com tends toward the KIB party, and thoughts of people.com tend toward the democratic party.

Party.Politics.Ph: Internet Campaigning in the Philippines

Philippine Political Science Journal, 2010

This article is an initial assessment of Internet utilization by political parties in the Philippines. The phenomenal growth in the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the country is not lost to political parties, candidates, and campaign managers. Online websites offer an opportunity for political parties to strengthen linkages with citizens and voters through information provision, transparency, interactivity, and networking. The article conducted a content analysis of the websites of five mainstream political parties and twelve party list organizations represented in the 14th Congress. It appraised the online presence of these parties and assessed the level of use of the Internet as a tool for internal party administration, online electoral campaigns, voters’ participation and organization.

Civic Engagement on Social Media: 2018 West Java Gubernatorial Election in Indonesia

Jurnal Komunikasi Indonesia, 2018

Strategi hypermedia dalam kontestasi politik digunakan untuk mempromosikan program-program pengetahuan politik baik oleh kandidat maupun partai kepada masyarakat untuk mempertahankan hak dan kewajiban kewarganegaraan. Pengetahuan politik seseorang dapat meningkatkan tingkat partisipasi politik mereka, yang diperlukan untuk menilai kualitas kandidat. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat kesadaran dan keterlibatan kandidat politik dengan pemilih. Penelitian ini berfokus pada strategi politik kandidat dalam membangun pesan kampanye, menarik pemilih yang ditargetkan, dan merangsang partisipasi politik komunitas melalui platform Instagram. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menganalisis 80.328 posting media sosial. Penelitian menemukan bahwa tidak semua kandidat menyadari manfaat dari melibatkan pemilih yang ditargetkan di akun Instagram. The hypermedia strategy in political contest is used to promote the programs of political knowledge by both candidates and parties to the society in order to maintain the citizenship rights and obligations. It is argued that one's basic political knowledge can increase their level of political participation, which is necessary to assess candidates' quality. The purpose of this study is to look at political candidates' awareness and engagement with the voters. The research focuses on the candidate's political strategy in constructing campaign message, attracting targeted voters, and stimulating the political participation of the community through Instagram platform. This research was conducted by analyzing 80,328 social media posts. The research finds that not all candidates were aware of the benefits of engaging targeted voters on Instagram account. Keterlibatan warga, pengetahuan politik, media sosial, penggalian data, Instagram Civic engagement, political knowledge, social media, data mining, Instagram.