Netray Analysis: How The Mass Media Reported PDIP's Internal Problems Between Ganjar And Puan

JAKARTA - Some time ago the PDI-P (PDIP) held an event in Semarang, Central Java. The chairman of the DPP, Puan Maharani, was present. Meanwhile, Governor Ganjar Pranowo, the PDIP cadre who was also the host, did not appear. The dynamic towards 2024 smells. How is the public responding to this? We monitor the crowd through the monitoring media, Netray.

Political observer from Al Azhar University Indonesia, Andriadi Achmad, said there were concerns about Ganjar's popularity through social media. That popularity can be dangerous for Puan, who according to her, has long been preparing a figure to be promoted by PDIP in the upcoming 2024 elections.

"Ganjar Pranowo's position is actually in a dilemma. Even though his electability is quite high as a presidential candidate in 2024. Of course who will be proposed as a presidential candidate in 2024 is in the hands of Megawati as the General Chair of PDIP," said Andriadi.

"Therefore, the presence of Ganjar Pranowo, who is considered to be intensively building popularity and electability, can cover Puan Maharani's position as a presidential candidate in 2024," he added.

Another political analyst, Pangi Syarwi Chaniago, highlighted this dynamic in terms of the strength of the Megawati breed. Puan, as Megawati's biological daughter, she certainly has a privileged position within the party. Ganjar's position, which has high popularity capital, could threaten Puan's move in 2024.

"Now PDIP is Megawati. Puan is Megawati's daughter. PDI-P has an upright habit," said the lecturer at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University.

However, as discussed in the article on the reasons for the alleged tampering with Ganjar by PDIP, we also see an anomaly in the tradition of political dynasties in the PDIP when Jokowi was promoted as president, even for two terms. The view of the absolute power of the Megawati or Soekarno breeds was actually broken at that time.

"This means that the PDIP presidential candidate has room for movement outside the Soekarno breed," said Pangi.

Monitoring of this theme was carried out using the keywords "Ganjar Pranowo" and "Puan Maharani". The results found 591 articles from 90 online mass media pages containing these keywords. Monitoring was carried out during the period 19 May to 25 May 2021.

Almost every day there are articles that talk about Ganjar and Puan or one of them. However, the intensity of the news increased when information about Ganjar's absence from being invited to the opening of the Marhaen Essay Photo Exhibition and Photo of Cultural Conservation Buildings at the Marhaen Panti, Saturday, May 22, circulated.

From Netray's summary, it was found that at least 349 news stories were written with positive sentiments. Meanwhile, 146 other reports have negative tendencies. Netray also analyzed the Word Clouds graph to see the cause of friction between Ganjar and Puan. From the observation, the words "electability", "survey", and "candidate" were found.

The words above are the most frequently used by the mass media in their reports. These words are coupled with the words direction, cadre, and invited. Then why did Ganjar seem ostracized? Electability is a group of words that answer that question. Although not one hundred percent correct because the conclusion is based on the framing of the mass media.

But the name Ganjar and the word electability are indeed closely related to positive sentiment. Ganjar's electability skyrocketed in a number of surveys. Ganjar is competing with several names of politicians, such as Governor Anies Baswedan or West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil, even Prabowo Subianto is the most popular candidate.

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