Controversy Of Jokowi Volunteers Events At GBK Stadium In Social Media According To Netray Monitoring

JAKARTA - The implementation of the national gathering of Jokowi Volunteers with the theme United Nusantara'' at the Bung Karno Main Stadium on November 26, 2022, left a number of controversies on social media. The first controversy related to President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) remarks about the Leader of White Hearts'.

In front of his volunteers, Jokowi gave a message to be careful in choosing the next Indonesian leader. Choose a leader who understands the feelings, desires, and needs of the people.

"Don't let us choose a leader, who will only enjoy sitting in a palace where the air conditioner is very cold. Find a leader who wants to go down," said Jokowi.

According to him, the leader who thinks of the people can be seen from his physical appearance.

From the wrinkles on his face. If the face is thin, clean, there are no wrinkles, be careful. Also look at his hair, if all the hair is white, well think about this people," Jokowi continued.

The characteristics of wrinkles on the face sound quite common for middle-aged political figures. However, the characteristics of white hair seem quite different because not all middle-aged political figures have white hair.

As the person who started the discourse, President Joko Widodo's name became the entity most mentioned by social media activists. From Netray monitoring, President Joko Widodo's name was in the first position. Social media activists mentioned the name of the President on their tweets as many as 1,313 mentions.

The second, third, and fourth positions are filled by Twitter accounts, namely @JukiHoki, @UyockBack, and @Tan_Mar3M. The three of them are included in the list at most because they are often mentioned by social media activists in connection with their popular three tweets when responding to Jokowi's statement about the criteria for good leaders.

The name Ganjar Pranowo as a non-account name is in fifth position from the Top People list. Emerging with an entity 'Ganjar', social media activists mentioned 175 times during the monitoring period. The same entity also appeared in seventh position, this time with alias 'Pak Ganjar 135 times the mention.

Ganjar Pranowo is practically a political figure who is stuck in the public's mind when the President mentions a leader with white hair. In addition to this physical feature, Ganjar is a political figure whose name has often been mentioned as a presidential candidate and often occupies the top position in a number of surveys," wrote Netray as the result of monitoring during the period 22-28 November 2022 using the keywords leader and white hair.

Similar results were also obtained from the Top Words graph. The name Ganjar Pranowo is the most often called social media activist so that he is in the middle of the diagram. The names of other figures also appear here, namely Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan. Of course, these two figures are not well known for the hair feature that has turned white. However, from Netray's monitoring, social media activists admitted that they still support their idol political figures even though they do not have the criteria mentioned by Jokowi.

The second controversy is related to the video of the Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) Benny Rhamdani when talking with President Jokowi. The video went viral because of Benny's inappropriate statement.

In the video, Benny asks Jokowi's war permission to face the critics directly, "We are excited, sir, we want to fight them. If we want to fight the field, we will have more."

Monitoring with the keywords relaws && jokowi and benny rhamdani, Netray Monitoring Media found 23,890 tweets, 14,819 of which were negative. Only 4,574 were positive.

This topic is stealing the attention of approximately eight thousand accounts with a total impression of 17.1 million reactions. The dominance of the discussion of social media activists regarding this keyword in addition to Benny's video is criticism of the excitement of the presidential event amid the Cianjur tragedy and piles of garbage that rose post-event.

Also, the discussion of the issue of a group of people who are'supported' about the event 'Nusantara Bersatu'. The event, which was initially suspected of being a social gathering, was actually an event for the Jokowi Volunteers Association. This incident became one of the contributors to negative sentiment on this topic.

The disappointment of Jokowi Volunteers at GBK: He said "Mau Shalawatan Qubro, It turns out that it doesn't exist! Really the king of PRANK!", tweeted Sirait BatakDusun.

This topic discussion graph continues to increase in three days of monitoring. As of November 29, there were 10,571 tweets that pinned the keywords. In fact, not a few social media activists want Benny to be fired and imprisoned.

Not only that, tweets showing digital polls related to Benny's figure also decorate the Twitter universe. Many social media activists also share tweets, as well as video links that prove that the Head of BP2MI is provocative. Many social media activists also see Benny as a joke, a sheep complainant, and even a public divider.

This call was answered by Benny's supporters. Seen from Top Words with the keyword "benny rhamdani, which shows the hashtag #bennyrhamdaniabapmi." On the tweets, social media activists shared their impressions regarding Benny Rhamdani's leadership which was extraordinary, so he did not deserve to be judged just because of the video.

Even though he has provided clarification regarding the video, Benny Rhamdani's name still gets negative attention from netizens and various groups. The aspirations he conveyed to Jokowi in the video were seen as provocations that could actually divide the public," Netray closed its report.