Sentiment analysis of hoax news toward the election 2019 based on student perspective

Abstract

In the era of science and technology development and the high number of social media usage in Indonesia instead of becoming a media provocation and hoax dissemination media that is troubling and judged can be a severe threat to national stability. Students are referred to as learned society in the hope of being a golden generation who is always capable of being a change agent in the structure of society. Therefore, in this research, the source of data is UII student’s opinion that was collected, using sentiment analysis, the researcher wants to know how the sentiment based on their response to the hoax news ahead of the 2019 election. Which hopefully can give solution and anticipate the heat of the political situation in Indonesia ahead of the next election 2019 and can educate students to care about social and political problems in Indonesia for the common good. Based on 395 respondents, it was concluded that UII student sentiment toward hoax news spread before the 2019 election was negative is 72,1%. The conclusion is the sentiment of UII students tends to be negative towards the spread of hoax news ahead of the 2019 election.