A Network of SDGs Actors in Indonesia Analyzes the Hashtag #SDGsDesa on Twitter

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10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_110How to use a DOI?

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Actor network; Campaign; Social Twitter; Village fund

Abstract

The Indonesian government has a serious commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, achieving the SDGs requires long-term support from various institutions in society, especially grassroots village governments, which have their own agenda. The Indonesian government, in particular the Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (MoVDDRT), has launched Village SDGs (SDGs Desa) to accelerate the achievement of SDGs using village funds. On social media, MoVDDRT has created a special hashtag (#SDGsDesa) to influence, inform and raise public support for this program. This paper tries to analyze: (a) what is the message in #SDGsDesa; (b) how #SDGsDesa is connected with other hashtags on social media; and (c) who are the actors related to #SDGsDesa. To answer this question, we collect Twitter data from 2019 to 2022 using the academictwitter package and analyze it using the quanteda package. We collected 20,000 tweets/observations using the hashtag #SDGsDesa as keywords. Based on this population, we randomly selected 3,452 tweets as a sample. We found that the public campaign with the #SDGDesa hashtag has reached a wide audience, facilitating digital interaction and communication among SDGs multi-stakeholders in open spaces. However, the hashtag #SGDsDesa is only connected with central government institutions, political elites and the MoVDDRT inner circle. The village government did not participate in this campaign due to the phenomenon of the digital divide between government agencies and geographical areas in Indonesia. We propose several recommendations based on these findings.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alamsyah Alamsyah
AU  - Slamet Widodo
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/07
TI  - A Network of SDGs Actors in Indonesia Analyzes the Hashtag #SDGsDesa on Twitter
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Green Development International Conference (GDIC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1121
EP  - 1132
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_110
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_110
ID  - Alamsyah2023
ER  -