Monitoring Of Netray When Ridwan Kamil Believes In The Golkar Party

Ridwan Kamil officially became a cadre of the Golkar Party on January 18, 2023. (Instagram/@golkar.indonesia)

JAKARTA Twitter activists congratulate the Governor of West Java, Ridwan Kamil, who has introduced himself to the Golkar Party. He is often considered the current governor, close to millennials and has millions of followers on social media.

His performance as a fairly good official, his always stylish appearance, his close relationship with social media activists, and his architectural works make Ridwan Kamil an idol figure among young people.

No wonder, if many political parties want to partner with him. Unfortunately, on January 18, 2023, Ridwan Kamil solidified his heart to join the party bearing the banyan tree.

"Whatever the party is, Kang @ridwankamil is always in the hearts of the people, continue Kang's spirit, God willing, the community will always support Akang until he succeeds in becoming a presidential candidate in 2024," wrote @as_syauqii on January 19, 2023.

Topics of Ridwan Kamil's inauguration as a member of the Golkar Party on Twitter have emerged since one week earlier. Starting from a mere issue, then the conversation increased until the inauguration day.

Netray proved through monitoring with the keyword& Golkardan RK && Golkar. During the period January 13-19 2023, Netray found 8,591 tweets. 6,138 tweets of which or about 71.4 percent were neutral, 1,968 tweets were positive, and only 485 tweets were negative.

The discussion regarding the keywords stole the attention of more than 1,717 accounts, even reaching up to 93.3 million accounts.

On January 18, 2023, the tweet from the @mspiyu_aja account became the most impressed tweet on the H day of the announcement. Meanwhile, during the week of discussion, a tweet from the @CNNIndonesia portal account which stated that RK's capital (Ridwan Kamil) in winning Golkar was the number of followers to become the most popular tweets that day, "wrote Netray.

The inauguration also had a positive impact on the Golkar Party. Many Twitter activists also tweeted support for this party. It can be seen from the ranks of the top words, and the emergence of hashtags of support, such as together with the champions, airlangga for Indonesia, airlangga responded to one, welosemridwankamil, golkarsolid, and Airlanggaresident.

Ridwan Kamil's meeting is expected to further strengthen the Golkar base in West Java.

Hopefully, Pak Kamil's presence in Golkar adds to the enthusiasm of all cadres in Golkar to work for the nation for the welfare of the community. The existence of a political party with its cadres who are of quality, work and have integrity is one of the main pillars for the progress of the nation," Ernawaty Tamba tweeted on January 20, 2023.

Meanwhile, negative tweets generally discuss Ridwan Kamil's attitude, who always replaces the party. As tweeted by the @Miduk17 account which referred to Ridwan Kamil as, a Master of amphik jumping''.

Apart from Twitter, Netray also monitors online media coverage regarding the topic using the keyword Ridwan Kamil && Golkar in the same period.

Netray found 907 articles in 117 online news media. The most intense news media reporting on this topic are Tribunnews with a total of 64 articles. Then, Kompas 43 articles, and Warta Ekonomi 37 articles.

The keyword Ridwan Kamil && Golkar had emerged at the beginning of monitoring with news containing the issue of Ridwan Kamil's membership in the Gotong Royong Multipurpose Organization Unit (Kosgoro 1957) which automatically made him a Golkar cadre. This issue decreased until January 15, 2023. After that, it started to creep up again on the following day, still dominated by neutral news, "Netray reported.

The news peaked on January 18, 2023 at around 19.00-20.00 WIB, precisely after the General Chair of the Golkar Party, Airlangga Hartarto officially announced the joining of Ridwan Kamil to Golkar. Of the 907 reports, 432 of them were positive signs for Ridwan Kamil. Only 28 articles were identified as negative news.

The negative news about Ridwan Kamil's presence in Golkar is proof of the failure of regeneration. The choice of vocabulary in the news headline stating failure of course has a negative impact on Ridwan Kamil's figure.

Executive Director of the Voxpol Center Research and Consulting, Pangi Syarwi Chaniago, in the news of Java Pos said Ridwan Kamil's presence on an exclusive route could potentially cause jealousy within the Golkar party.

When joining, Ridwan Kamil immediately got a strategic position as Deputy General Chair for the Raising of Voters and co-chairs of the Election Winning Body (Bappilu) of the Golkar Party.

Ridwan Kamil said joining a political party was a new journey. This decision was not taken suddenly, but through good considerations by conducting qisharah, input from families, scholars, relatives, colleagues and friends.

"I take this decision for the sake of improving performance, not just political ambitions," Ridwan Kamil said on his social media on January 19, 2023.

Although he has served as Mayor of Bandung and the current Governor of West Java, Ridwan Kamil has never been registered as a cadre of a political party. When he was elected Mayor of Bandung in 2013, he advanced with the support of the Gerindra Party and the Prosperous Justice Party even though he was not a cadre of these two parties.

Likewise during the election for the Governor of West Java in 2018. Nasdem gave him a ticket to run for Governor of West Java with Uu Ruzhanul Ulum. However, it is not because Ridwan Kamil is a cadre of the Nasdem Party but only because his electability is very high in West Java.

Now, Ridwan Kamil has a variety of yellows. According to him, the Golkar Party has been tested as one of the political parties that is a pillar of democracy in Indonesia, which has always been committed to maintaining and defending democracy in the country, and helped strengthen the establishment of Pancasila and the Republic of Indonesia.

The Golkar Party with the ideology of its work also has a very big role in the nation's development, which always oversees and collaborates with the journey of Indonesia's great ships, and has even proven to be able to overcome various crises and rise, such as during a pandemic.

"This is also my determination with Golkar to encourage a clean and dignified government and support law enforcement efforts that are just and civilized," said Ridwan Kamil.

"May Allah SWT accompany and lead my steps and struggles with the Golkar Party to bring change to Indonesia, the champion and prosperity of the Indonesian people, amen," he added.