Netray Monitoring Of Reactions Of TikTok Netizens After Debate Of Third Presidential Candidate: Prabowo Is Most Called

Prabowo Subianto expressed his opinion witnessed by Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo in the Third Debate of the 2024 General Election Candidate at Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Sunday (7/1/2024). (Between/Aditya Pradana Putra/foc)

The third presidential candidate (candidate) debate held on Sunday (7/1/2023) at Istora Senayan has become a public discussion on social media, including on the TikTok platform, which is very close to Generation Z.

The three presidential candidates are Anies Baswedan, Prabowo Subianto, and Ganjar Pranowo against each other in a debate with the theme of defense, security, international relations, globalization, geopoliticalism, and foreign politics.

Attacking each other, insinuating occurred throughout last weekend's debate. Obviously, this third debate still attracts the attention of the public. And,Netray is trying to capture netizens' opinions about the momentum of this third presidential candidate debate through TikTok social media, most of which are young people, aka Generation Z.

The atmosphere of the debate this time was felt hotter than the previous edition. The reason is, this third presidential candidate debate seems to be being used by presidential candidates to attack each other against them. Especially when Prabowo Subianto as Minister of Defense for the 2019-2024 period seemed to be being tested for his performance in the last five years.

The debate over the three presidential candidates is also being discussed on TikTok. Using the keyword Capres &&debate during the period January 7-9, 2024, TikTok residents are apparently very enthusiastic about responding to the debate.

Terbukti muncul 539 video TikTok dari 391 akun membahas acara ini, demikian laporanNetray.

In fact, the discussion of the presidential candidate was also carried out by TikTok netizens whose accounts were not political. One of them is the @Janes_cs account, which usually uploads videos about beauty, also comments. He revealed that if you want to see someone's character, give someone power. But he was surprised when the presidential candidate debate, which was only a few, turned out to be able to open someone's character.

This refers to Anies who during the continuous debate attacked other presidential candidates. "This middle-aged mother's upload has even become the most popular during the monitoring period to reach 405.1 thousand likes, 15.7 thousand comments, and was re-shared 6.2 thousand times," wroteNetray.

Ali Hamza @allinizad's account also doesn't want to miss discussing the debate on TikTok. Even though @allinezad shares information and education everyday, recently he has also often discussed the Palestinian-Israeli war.

Netray monitoring regarding the ranks of hashtags is popular on TikTok. (Netray)

According to Ali, the debate this time was too personal, referring to Anies criticizing Prabowo regarding the lack of a cyber defense system. In his content, Ali also questioned Anies' success in building Jakarta after he was appointed governor of the capital for five years.

Although he is good at rhetoric, Ali assesses that Anies actually does not really understand the defense issue because he asked Prabowo to open defense data in public. Netray monitoring shows that this upload managed to get 138.4 thousand likes, 24.8 thousand comments and was re-shared 2.9 thousand times.

Another account that also discusses the presidential candidate debate is @putra.ajisujati. He considered this debate to be like a mechanical complaint, aka who was the strongest and provoked emotions. According to Putra, in last weekend's debate Anies criticized Prabowo more than Ganjar. Several things that Anies mentioned were the issue of a large defense budget, land ownership, to cyber security. However, Putra explained his agreement with the vision and mission of the three presidential candidates.

According toNetray's observation, Prabowo Subianto received the most mention on TikTok, after last weekend's debate. Hashtags such as #prabowo and #prabowosubianto are often used by netizens in every upload, with total hashtags appearing in 191 TikTok videos.

"Meanwhile, the next position of the hashtag #aniesbaswedan is mentioned in 104 TikTok videos. While the hashtag #ganjarpranowo gets the least mention in 78 TikTok video uploads," wrote Netray again.

Meanwhile, there is one account that can attract the attention of netizens up to 487,259 reactions. During the monitoring period, this account uploaded a total of three videos, including those showing Najwa Shihab's comments in Najwa's notes. It was the Prabowo @fortprabowo support account that received a lot of impression during the monitoring period.

In second place is the @Janes_cs account on the list of the most popular users. This account was able to get 426,971 reactions from netizens even though it only made one upload. The @kompastvnews account, which uploaded 12 videos, received 333,464 reactions from netizens.

Executive Director of Indonesia Political Opinion (IPO) Dedi Kurnia Syah said Anies appeared confident because he believed his loyalist group was quite strong. However, according to Dedi, Anies' attack on Prabowo risks being the master's weapon.

"This risks building sympathy for Prabowo, a critical attitude that is currently not in demand in Indonesia, Anies should maintain his attitude, not be vulgar in attacking," Dedi told VOI.

The same thing was also expressed by the Executive Director of the Nusantara Institute PolCom SRC (Political Communication Studies and Research Center), Andriadi Achmad. He considered that repeated attacks from Anies and Ganjar could give birth to public antipathy.

"It should be noted that the repeated attacks carried out by Anies and Ganjar against Prabowo Subianto in the presidential candidate debate yesterday could roll into public sympathy. On the contrary, Anies and Ganjar's repeated attacks could give birth to public antipathy," he said.