Discussions On The People's Party Of Dewa 19 According To Netray Monitoring

Ari Lasso, Once Mekel, Ello, and Virzha enlivened the Dewa 19 concert at JIS, North Jakarta on February 4, 2023. (Diah Ayu Wardhani / VOI)

JAKARTA The 30th Anniversary of the People's Party Concert Dewa 19 at the Jakarta International Stadium, North Jakarta on February 4 last was a success. A total of 35 songs were performed by Ahmad Dhani and his friends in the concert which lasted for 4 hours.

Not only about the stage action of Dewa 19 which presented 4 vocalists, namely Ari Lasso, Once Mekel, Ello, and Virzha, the condition of JIS and the presence of well-known figures in the country as concert audiences has also become a hot topic of conversation on Twitter.

Among them were Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil, Bogor Mayor Bima Arya, Democratic Party Chairman Agus Harimukti Yudhoyono along with his wife and children, and Rocky Gerung, Nazwa Shihab, and Anies Baswedan.

From Netray's observation, the conversation of Twitter activists who used the keyword Dewa 19 has emerged two days before holding a concert with an intensity of more than 1,000 tweets. Then it jumped dramatically on February 5, 2023 with a total of 8,842 tweets in one day.

All Twitter activist responses related to the topic were monitored quite high. During the monitoring period 2-8 February 2023, Netray has uploaded 25.682 tweets that reached 3.5 million impressions in the form of reply, retweets, andfavorites. Potentially it can also reach at least 188.5 million Indonesian-language Twitter accounts.

Netray monitoring statistics with keywords Dewa 19 for the period 2-8 February 2023. (Netray)

From the tweet that Netray managed to collect, it was observed that 6,203 tweets were uploads with positive sentiment. While another 8,201 tweets were tweets with negative sentiment," Netray wrote in his report on February 10, 2023.

One of the most popular conversations of the topic is the experience of watching Dewa 19 concerts. The @shitlicius account reaps the most impressions. He made a thread with the opening tweet about the suffering while watching Dewa 19 concerts.

@shitlicius recounted a number of problems he received last week. Starting from the problem of exchanging tickets, running out of seats, to the affordability of the venue. Despite being entertained by the band's performance, @shitlicius was disappointed with the organizers of the Dewa 19 concert.

"The uploads from the @shitlicius account managed to reap 39,424 impressions from Twitter activists and took the first position in the account with the most impressions," said Netray.

In second place, there is an @starfess account with an impression of 31,696 times. The most popular upload from Twitter activists on this account shows a storygram image of celebrity Ananda Omesh and his wife, Dian Ayu Lestari. Omesh is known to watch Dewa's concert 19, while Dian at the same time watched the EXO concert on Ancol Beach.

Not only that, there are also many accounts that show the other side of Dewa's concert 19. Instead of commenting on the performance of the band on stage, an account such as @Miduk17 which earned a total of 18,956 impressions actually commented on JIS as a concert venue.

@Miduk17 highlights the lack of public transportation, limited parking areas, and exits to stadium areas that are only provided in two places. This point of view dragged Anies Baswedan's name into the conversation. Talks then led to politics.

As is known, JIS was inaugurated on July 24, 2022 by Anies when he was still the Governor of DKI Jakarta. The use of JIS as a concert venue that can accommodate 70 thousand people is considered an effort to popularize Anies as a presidential candidate in the 2024 election.

Even so, the discussion about the figures of Anies and JIS is not becoming popular. It only occupies the second position with 2,634 mentions. The most popular is Prabowo Subianto with 3,430 mentions. Prabowo's presence became the main lip of Twitter activists with various points of view of conversation, "added Netray closing its report.

Redline Kreasindo as promoter of the Dewa 19 concert apologized for any inconvenience that occurred during the concert. Among other things, about the chaos of the seats to the JIS outflow after the concert was over.

CEO of Redline Kreasindo Rionaldo Liputo said this condition was a natural thing because simultaneously the audience went out to the parking area or a shuttle bus that had been prepared for the audience.

"As the organizer and provider of the venue, we apologize for the incident that occurred when the flow of return after the event was over," Liputo said representing the promoter and organizer in a press release on February 8, 2023.

Liputo also apologized for miscommunication in the directional directions made in the concert area, causing many spectators in the stands to not get a seat. However, he made sure there was no double print or double ticket.

"We will make a comprehensive evaluation for learning, as an internal note for the better in the future," added Liputo.

Punggawa Dewa 19, Ahmad Dhani, through his Instagram, one day after the concert, also thanked the 60 thousand Baladewa and Baladewi (as Dewa 19 fans) who had attended the 30th anniversary of the Dewa 19 Berkarya People's Party.

The grand event became a milestone for Indonesian music. Especially for Dewa19 and Baladewa Baladewi who gathered to spread love to others.

"Hopefully yesterday's People's Party will always make an impression on your memory," wrote Dhani.