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Using Social Media as Tools of Social Movement and Social Protest in Omnibus Law of Job Creation Bill Policy-Making Process in Indonesia

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Social media has become a current important media of a social movement. The paper investigates the relationship between social media and social protest in the case of the Omnibus Law Protest in Indonesia and to understand the narrative content that spread in social media on the Omnibus Law. This study used social media data that is Twitter hashtags related to Omnibus Law issues. This study has been using Q-DAS (Qualitative Data Analysis Software) (Nvivo 12 plus) to collect data and analyze data with Chart analysis, Cluster analysis, and Word cloud Analysis. These research findings reveal that the social movement on Omnibus Law protest is namely through 1) Social media has been used to mobilize the activities of the action; 2) Social media has also been used to spread the voice and spread the crucial issues on the contra of Omnibus Law; 3) Social media have a strong relation to circulating the urgent issue and public policy debate. According to the Indonesian public demands, this movement’s implication is the change necessary items on Omnibus Law. The limitation of this research is; 1) Only use social media data, 2) Data focused on hashtags, 3) This research focused on social media and the social movement relation and the narrative on social media. The recommendation to another article; 1) Using digital or mass source as an option, 2) If using social media data combined the account data and hashtags data, 3) Research focus on the process of a social movement.

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    Arissy Jorgi Sutan, Achmad Nurmandi & Dyah Mutiarin

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Sutan, A.J., Nurmandi, A., Mutiarin, D., Salahudin, S. (2021). Using Social Media as Tools of Social Movement and Social Protest in Omnibus Law of Job Creation Bill Policy-Making Process in Indonesia. In: Antipova, T. (eds) Advances in Digital Science. ICADS 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1352. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71782-7_24

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