Abstract
The emergence of Islamic political parties was initially thought to represent the voices of the majority of voters in Indonesia, where the majority of voters are Muslim. However, in reality, they could not compete with nationalist political parties. That prompted this study to research Islamic political parties to see opportunities for the next election. This study was conducted using sentiment analysis by relying on the NVivo 12 Plus analysis tool to identify the sentiment results of Twitter users towards Islamic political parties. This study’s findings show negative sentiment results for Islamic political parties. It also indicates that Islamic political parties are not ready to appear as parties that dominate elections and challenge nationalist political parties. It also suggests that the nationalist party will remain a strong pivot for the upcoming election period. The result of negative sentiment is also predicted to influence the decisions of Islamic political parties in the future, especially in forming a coalition axis with nationalist political parties. This will consciously encourage Islamic political parties to ignore their own party’s ideology. In addition, the result of negative sentiment is also predicted to encourage a change in the future campaign model, which is more focused on inclusive nationalist appeals or exclusive appeals to Islam, especially on social media, to change public sentiment. This will likely be done naturally to secure his political position nationally in the upcoming elections.
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Jubba, H., Baharuddin, T., Qodir, Z., Iribaram, S. (2023). Sentiment Analysis: Predicting the Position of Islamic Political Parties in Indonesia in the Next Election. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, R.S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of Eighth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. ICICT 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 694. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3091-3_84
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