Abstract

There are many public responses about implementing government policies related to Covid-19. Some have positive and negative opinions, especially on the official social media portal of the government. Twitter is one social media where people are free to express their opinions. This study aims to find out the opinion of sentiment analysis on Twitter in implementing government policies related to Covid-19 to classify public opinion. Several stages in analyzing public sentiment are taken from the tweet data. The first step is data mining to get the tweets that will be analyzed later. Furthermore, cleaning tweet data and equalizing tweet data into lowercase. After that, perform the tweet's basic word search process and calculate its appearance frequency. Then calculate using the Naïve Bayes method and determine the sentiment classification of the tweet. The results showed that Indonesia's public sentiment about covid-19 prevention is neutral. The performance of the application shows an Accuracy value of 76.7%. In conclusion this means that the Indonesian government needs to evaluate the policies taken to deal with COVID-19 to create positive opinions to create solid cooperation between the government and the government. Residents in tackling the COVID-19 outbreak.

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