Netray: The Wave Of Citizens' Rejection Of The Law To Create Work Continues To Roll

Rejection of the Job Creation Law (Irvan meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - Social media is still busy discussing the attitude of the DPR which has passed the draft Work Creation Act or the Omnibus Law. In addition to questioning the agenda for the ratification that seemed so hasty, the public was disappointed with the DPR's decision which was considered contrary to the people's vote in responding to the Job Creation Bill.

Various rejections related to the Omnibus Law began to bloom in several regions. Not only direct action in a number of areas, calls for the hashtag for refusal have also spread across the Twitter social media universe.

This action was carried out by workers, activists, students, and various elements of society who did not agree with a number of controversial articles which were deemed to threaten many sectors, from civil liberties, social justice, economy, culture and environmental sustainability.

Based on monitoring conducted by Netray, the DPR's keywords, Omnibus law, and a number of other hashtags have become trending topics of conversation on Twitter. Includes hashtags such as #mositidakpercaya and #dprrikhianatirakyat.

"The dominance of negative sentiment with more than 103 thousand accounts discussing the DPR. While the peak was seen on October 5, 2020, with total tweets reaching 195 thousand a day," wrote Netray.

Various keywords for warganet rejection related to the Job Creation Law (doc. Netray)

Netizen disillusionment with the DPR decision has sparked a wave of anger on Twitter. It is not enough just to sound a vote of no confidence, netizens also cursed or cursed at the DPR.

Not only Twitter, a wave of rejection was also observed on the Instagram network. Netray also found various hashtags with narratives of rejection of the Controversial Omnibus Law.

"The hashtags #b Cancelomnibuslaw, #jegalsampaigagal, to #tolakruuciptakerja, were embedded in the warganet action upload," said Netray.

Conversation network related to the Job Creation Law (doc. Netray)

Netray also monitors the Omnibus Law's rejection narrative conversation networks on social media both Instagram and Twitter. It can be seen that the personal accounts of President Joko Widodo @jokowi, @dpr_ri and @puanmaharani are the most marked accounts by netizens regarding the topic of rejection of the Job Creation Law.

The number of netizen uploads voicing the aspirations of the people is not small. Until now, various hashtags related to the rejection of the Job Creation Law still adorn the world of social media, both Twitter and Instagram.