JAKARTA Memori hari ini, enam tahun yang lalu, 18 Agustus 2019, Menteri Kelautan dan Perikanan (KKP), Susi Pudjiastuti menjadi menteri yang paling populer di Twitter. Pernyataan itu diungkap oleh perusahaan analisis data, Indonesia Indicator (I2) dalam riset terbarunya.
Previously, Susi's popularity as Minister of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries boomed everywhere. His achievements as minister are piled up. His action in sinking fishing thieves is often discussed. Even though not a few are against it.
No one denies the position of minister is indeed a political position. Alias, who sits as a minister, sometimes does not have a background in the field he leads. However, it is different from Susi.
He has a close relationship with his work. This condition is because Susi is a marine entrepreneur. The effort made him understand very well the intricacies of Indonesia's oceans. He also saw for himself how the miserable life of Indonesian fishermen.
This condition made Susi challenged to increase the lives of the Indonesian people since 2014. The way Susi offers is to make maximum use of marine products for the prosperity of the people.
This desire made Susi act like an Indonesian marine guard. He did not want the Indonesian sea to be dredged by other countries. Moreover, illegally. Susi also took bold action. He caught and sank an illegal foreign fishing thief ship.
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The sinking of the ship caught the attention of many people. This condition also made the movements of Minister Susi relaxed and simple to make news. Anything Minister Susi said went viral everywhere. Anything by Minister Susi's actions could easily go viral.
Take for example when Minister Susi boarded a pickup truck to greet the residents of Kolaka, Southeast Sulawesi on March 21, 2017. This eccentric action provoked the attention of many people.
Because he was tired of waiting, the boss (Susi) finally asked for a walk on the beach first. When he arrived at the lobby, the boss asked to go around on a motorbike, which I finally advised him not to remember that he was in a back pain (due to wrong movement to raise his grandson).
"I joked: just get in a sedan, ma'am. The boss didn't want to. But when he looked to the right and saw the car with an open hood, the boss immediately said: just get on this one," said Susi's personal assistant, Fika Fawzia on the twitter / X account @ ffawzia07 a few days later, March 28, 2017.
Susi's eccentric action did not stop. Likewise with her action of sinking foreign fishing vessels. This condition made Susi seen as the best minister in the cabinet of the Joko Widodo (Jokowi) government.
In particular, Susi was also seen as the most popular minister on Twitter with 653,052 conversations on August 18, 2019. This narrative emerged from the results of the latest research conducted by Indonesia Indicator.
Susi outperformed Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Wiranto, who was in second place with 405,747 conversations. Then the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, was in third position with 366,618 conversations.
The data analysis company revealed that Susi is the minister who Twitter users often defend. Performance is praised. The eccentric action is admired. Unlike the second and third ranked ministers.
They are popular not only because of achievements. Performance and controversy issues also get the sharp spotlight of Twitter users.
The analysis of the data itself took samples from Twitter users' discussions about the ministers of the Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla cabinet from January 1 to July 25, 2019. In total there were 2,989,714 conversations.
"Twitter is a public space for netizens to highlight the policies and performance of Jokowi-JK Cabinet ministers in the first half of 2019," said Director of Communications I2, Rustika Herlambang as quoted by the Kompas.com page, August 18, 2019.
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