Indonesian presidential election sentiment: Dataset of response public before 2024

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the countries that is currently entering the political year for the election of President, Regional Heads, and Members of the Legislative in 2024. This has become a hot topic on social media, especially about the Presidential Election. Twitter is one of the platforms with the largest users in Indonesia. It is interesting to see the alignment of Twitter users towards presidential candidates who already have a carrying party, namely Ganjar Pranowo, Prabowo Subianto, and Anies Baswedan based on a sentiment analysis approach. User feedback data about Indonesian Presidential candidates are obtained from the Twitter platform using Twitter API with Python programming language. The data obtained was 30,000 data with each candidate as many as 10,000 data. Data is pulled in April 2023 with specific keywords. The time for data withdrawal is chosen based on the announcement of Presidential Candidates carried by political parties before the schedule for determining or campaigning for Presidential candidates. Current data can potentially be used again as a comparison of analysis of presidential candidates on campaign time spans and after campaigns or actual calculation results. The data that can be accessed is in CSV format and has gone through several stages such as labelling using Language experts, removing spam Tweets & empty cells and preprocessing.

Keywords

• Indonesia presidential candidates
• Political parties
• Python
• Sentiment analysis
• Twitter