The Issue Of Election Domination Of Netizens' Chats On Social Media And News

Use of Sirekap as a voice counting tool connected to the Indonesian KPU server at the East Jakarta KPU Office, Jakarta, Monday (18/12/2023). (Between/Muhammad Adimaja/tom/aa)

JAKARTA The democratic party that was awaited aka the 2024 election was finally held on February 14, 2024. After a fairly boisterous campaign period, this election moment became the talk of netizens. However, what was most talked about was the alleged fraud in the vote count of the presidential election.

The quick count results of several credible survey institutions show that Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka's second-number pair ranks first. The candidate pair 02 skyrocketed with votes above 50 percent, followed by Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD.

However, many netizens are dissatisfied with the results, and the discussion is related to allegations of fraud, especially in the vote count for the 2024 presidential election which is considered to be beneficial for candidate pair 02.

Si recap, a recapitulation application from the election vote count has become a trending topic because it displays inappropriate recap results.

Based on Netray's monitoring, during the period 14-15 February 2024, the keyword "Pemiludansirekap on social media X" was observed in 457 thousand uploads from 127.9 thousand accounts. This topic discussion resulted in 807.7 thousand reactions from netizens which could potentially reach up to 492.4 million X accounts.

The most intensity of the conversation occurred on February 15, 2024, as many as 239.7 thousand uploads appeared that day. Meanwhile, the previous day, February 14, 2024, was no different, amounting to 217.7 thousand uploads discussing the two keywords, "said the Netray report.

But the discussion of netizens X about the election focuses on allegations of fraud. This can be seen from the word fraud and fraud that stands out.

Among the frauds described by netizens is the question of ballot paper that has been first selected by a handful of people in Madura for candidate pair 02. This information was uploaded by Ben AsyafFor 01 and @mapedos01 accounts which received thousands of impressions from netizens.

Similar allegations of fraud also occurred in a number of other areas, which were revealed by several accounts that are Anies-Muhaimin loyalists. Not only that, netizens are also seen eager to collect evidence of fraud either through videos or photos. Including the @TirtoID news account featuring past fraud threads during the new order of Suharto's leadership.

"Utasnya berhasil mendapatkan ribuan likes dan repost dari warganet," papar Netray.

In addition to allegations of fraud, netizen X also highlighted the KPU's SiRekap application. Sirekap said it appeared in 44.4 thousand uploads which were dominated by negative sentiment.

Not only on social media X, but Netray also looked at the topic of the 2024 General Election through mass media coverage. Using the word Pemilu during the period 14-15 February, 9.4 thousand articles from 385 media were found. As much as 85 percent of the news had political themes and then followed by the legal government to automotive.

In the mass media, news related to elections is dominated by discussions on vote acquisitions ranging from pairs of candidates for presidential and vice-presidential candidates to members of the Regency DPRD. One of them is to report Ridwan Kamil's wife, Atalia Praratya, who based on the results of the KPU's real count until February 15 at 21.00 WIB was in first position. He defeated artists such as Giring Ganesha, Melly Goeslaw, to Somah as the candidate for the West Java electoral district of the DPR.

In addition, there is also Prabowo's name which is most mentioned in the mass media coverage, compared to Ganjar and Anies.

Prabowo's name is 11.9 thousand times compared to Ganjar, only 6.4 thousand times and Anies 5.5 thousand times," said Netray.

Prabowo's news emerged because his name was superior to the other two pairs of candidates based on quick count or quick count in a number of survey institutions. Prabowo also received greetings from four world leaders. They are Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

Finally, the frogpps also dominates mass media coverage. The Voting Organizing Group (KPPS) is widely mentioned in the news regarding personnel who are exhausted, sick, and died in various regions.