Omnibus Law in the Job Creation Bill-Making Process: An Online Natural Language Process Analysis

Abstract

This study aims to: 1) capture the discourse of omnibus law on online media, 2) analyze the differences of omnibus law discourse on online media coverage, and 3) the government’s political communication in the policy-making process. Descriptions were identified through a content analysis performed using NVivo 12 Plus to the four online medias that reported the omnibus law the most during the first 6 months of the policy making process, they are Kompas.com, Detik.com, Tempo.co, and Vivanew.com. The result indicates that there are similarities and differences in online media reporting about the omnibus law policy-making process through the Job Creation Bill. First, the similarity lies in the dominant roles and interests of the government in the policy-making process. Second, there were different issues discussed and different news sentiments by online media, such as critical, positive, and proportional sentiments. Third, to achieve its goals, the government seems to be trying to approach the legislative, which plays crucial roles in the passing process from bill to law, but not to approach workers and various groups resisting the omnibus law.