MEASUREMENT OF DEMOCRACY LEVEL USING SENTIMENT ANALYSIS

• Main Author: Nurviana, Nova
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/68351
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Measuring the level of democracy is crucial because it has a benefit to evaluate and to plan political development in each province in Indonesia. Instead of that, it has an advantage to provide a dataset resource for academic purposes in the field of democratic and political research areas. Measuring the level of democracy has not only been done in Indonesia, but also around the world. They measured the democracy level to decide the amount of funding or loan that has to be given from world organizations, such as the IMF. Recently, measuring the democracy level has been done by Statistics Indonesia (Badan Pusat Statistik). They collected news that is related to democracy issues manually from the newspaper. As a consequence, it takes a lot of time to get the final result of the democracy index. We have found from several literatures, there is a gap between the time when the paper is published and the data that they used in their paper. This gap year has a mean 2.3 years. Therefore, in this article, we performed a sentiment analysis approach to retrieve positive or negative sentiments, from online newspapers. It has been found that this approach can be used to quantify the democracy level. We justified this conclusion by using statistical t-test that shows both the percentage of positive sentiments and democracy index do not give a significant difference.