Dominant Actors and Political Communication related to The New National Capital City (Ibu Kota Negara - IKN)

Abstract

The policy of moving the National Capital City from DKI Jakarta to East Kalimantan continues to be an interesting issue to be discussed. This research focuses on Twitter, a microblogging platform, where users can upload tweets and interact with other users through four types of engagement: likes, retweets, replies, and quotes. By using the quantitative content analysis research method, this study aims to see who the dominant actor or communicator in the IKN issue from the four recorded engagements is. Since the enactment of the Law on National Capitals, from 18 January 2022 to 31 January 2022, there have been 14,872 interactions on Twitter, with two dominant communication actors. The results showed that Muhammad Said Didu through the account @msaid_didu, is at the top for like interactions (6,009 times) and retweet interactions (1,861 times). Meanwhile, Ridwan Kamil (@ridwankamil), was ranked 1st and 2nd for reply interactions (2,228 and 1,571 times). Ridwan Kamil also got the highest quote interactions of 1,349 times. The topic of moving the IKN involved well-known figures accounts such as Hidayat Nur Wahid and Sudjiwo Tedjo. In addition, accounts that are also involved and get high user engagement are accounts belonging to the media, such as Tempo (@tempodotco), Kompas (@kompascom and @kompasTV), Kumparan (@kumparan), and CNN Indonesia (CNN Indonesia).