Topics Of Golkar Party Chairman Airlangga Hartarto's Visit To Cikeas According To Netray Monitoring

The meeting of the leadership of the Democratic Party with the Golkar Party at Puri Cikeas, Bogor Regency, West Java on April 29, 2023. (Between/M Fikri Setiawan)

JAKARTA Still in the moment of Eid, Chairman of the Golkar Party Airlangga Hartarto visited Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Chairman of the DPP Democratic Party Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY).

Airlangga's arrival at Puri Cikeas, Bogor on April 29, received sharp attention from a number of politicians and media crews. Many believe that new speculation will emerge in the political dynamics ahead of the 2024 General Election.

Moreover, two days later, Airlangga again held a meeting with the General Chairperson of the Gerindra Party Prabowo Subianto at the residence of the Chairman of the Golkar Party Board of Trustees Aburizal Bakrie.

In his observation on April 29-May 2, 2023, Netray found 245 news from 74 media that wrote political news about the Airlangga-AHY meeting. Tribun News became the online media that talked the most about this topic with 15 news, followed by Kompas with 13 news, and Tempo with 11 news.

The news has started to get busy since the discourse emerged that Airlangga wanted to visit SBY at Puri Cikeas. As stated in the Liputan6 news, Airlangga met with the 6th President at 19.00 WIB and was accompanied by the Head of Democrats, AHY. This news was also reported by Tempo, Kompas and so on.

On the first day of monitoring, there were 127 news that were dominated by positive news.

The closed meeting caused various speculations; Airlangga will propose AHY as the vice presidential candidate and the United Indonesia Coalition is threatened with disbandment. The reason is, Golkar has a coalition group different from Democrats. This news appears to be written by the Warta City Tribune and Jambi Tribune," Netray wrote in its report on May 10, 2023.

News intensity then declined the following day, Netray only found 84 news.

Among other things, discussing the results of the meeting that occurred between Airlangga, SBY, and AHY. Airlangga and AHY then answered the public's curiosity and revealed what was discussed at the press conference after the meeting. Starting from democratic practices in archipelagic countries, identity politics, and the electoral system that took place in Indonesia.

During the monitoring period, the word 'golkar', 'demokrat', and 'coal' were the most discussed words by online media coverage. This is related to AHY's statement which states that the coalition between Golkar and Democrats is very likely to occur.

According to Airlangga, politics is the art of possibility. In this politics and life, everything has a possibility.

On the other hand, PKS through the Chairman of the PKS DPP Mardani Ali Sera openly invited the Golkar Party to join the Change Coalition. Mardani assessed that the SBY-AHY and Airlangga meeting was part of a political gathering. This is as seen published by the iNews portal.

The 2024 election journey is getting closer. Airlangga Hartarto as the Ketum carried out a maneuver in the form of a political gathering to the opposition party. The public does not fully know what was discussed in the closed meeting. But on the other hand AHY as the Democrat Ketum still adhered to making Anies Baswedan a presidential candidate," said Netray.

Airlangga's move has also become a hot public conversation on Twitter. During the same period, Netray found 2,745 tweets from 1,348 accounts. Airlangga &AHY's keywords resulted in 682.5 thousand impressions reaching up to 73.5 million accounts.

The conversation peaked on April 30, 2022, with popular tweets containing speculation about Airlangga's arrival to Cikeas. Among other things, Airlangga asked AHY to become a vice presidential candidate for him. So there are many questions, when Golkar and Democrats form a coalition, what will happen to Anies Baswedan?

"The question about Anies Baswedan's status has made Anies' words included in the ranks of the most mentioned words or Top Words. Anies Baswedan also appeared in the ranks of Top People or the most mentioned figures during the monitoring period," wrote Netray.

The word 'coalization' is the next word that is quite widely mentioned. This is related to the estimated Democratic and Golkar coalitions which will form a new axis because they have met the 20 percent presidential threshold (PT). The axis will make the United Indonesia Coalition consisting of Golkar, PPP, and PAN will disband. In the end, Anies became a political homeless person. This discussion was tweeted by @yusuf_dumdumdum and @DoankWarto.

Responding to the crowds of illegal speculations, the Democrats then firmly denied that AHY was offered to be vice president. This was conveyed by the spokesman for the Democrats Herzaky Mahendra Putra who also emphasized that reading the Democratic President is still Anies Baswedan. This news appears to be written by the @ajengcute16__ account.

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