Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar Proceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Islamic Studies (ICSIS) 2023

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The potential of political radicalism through hashtags in Twitter
Sayuti Sayuti, Mariatul Qibtiyah, Ghina Nabilah Effendi

Last modified: 2023-07-16

Abstract


Twitter is a social media platform that is often used as a means of digital political communication in Indonesia. Revealing the discourse on the three periods through Twitter makes Twitter a medium for the public to convey their ideas through tweets and hashtags, which can potentially become political radicalism. This happened because the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, had been elected for two periods, making it impossible to return to continue his administration. According to the 1945 Constitution, the provisions of Article 7 explicitly stipulate that the President and Vice President hold office for five years. After that, they can be re-elected in the same position, only for one term of office. This means that the term of office of the president and vice president is only allowed for a maximum of two times. The presidential discourse for these three periods also has the potential to give rise to radicalism which, according to Cross (2013), radicalism in the scope of social and political movements, means a process, practice, or set of beliefs from a non-radical state to become radical. The practice of radicalism is often associated with several tactics and strategies that are outside the scope of acceptable political and religious protest actions, even leading to illegal ones. By using descriptive qualitative research methods, this article tries to describe the potential for radicalism through the hashtags #presiden3periodand #tandingan3period on Twitter social media. Using NVIVO's analysis, this article analyzes how much the hashtag is used and discussed through tweets by netizens who threaten radicalism's growth in Indonesia because if this 3-period discourse occurs, there will be an amendment to the 1945 Constitution.


Keywords


Radicalism; politics; social media

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