Abstract
The Omnibus Law, which was passed on October 5, 2020, has discontented students and workers who protested on the streets. The ratification of the Omnibus Law has an effect on public opinion-raising activities, both those who support and who reject the ratification of the Omnibus Law, are crowded on Twitter social media. The active account of K-Poppers who took part became a line against the opinion of the Omnibus Law, so a question arises whether this is a phenomenon of the rise of political awareness of K-Poppers in Indonesia? This study analyzes the role of K-Poppers in socio-political movements in several countries globally, especially in Indonesia. The type of research used is a case study of the K-Poppers movement in the case of the ratification of the Omnibus Law as the subject in writing this paper. Collecting data using Social Network Analysis (SNA) and observing the activities of K-Poppers in Indonesia when parliament passed the controversial Omnibus Law. The results of this study indicate that Indonesian K-Poppers maximize their function as part of Indonesian citizens to express their political stance. They also showed their political involvement when creating hashtags, organizing other K-Pop crowds, and at the same time providing support to activists who rejected the Omnibus Law.
Highlights
In early October 2020, thousands of students in several major cities in Indonesia took to the streets to protest against the Omnibus Law, which the Indonesian Parliament passed on October 5, 2020; students and labor activists were dissatisfied with the government and Parliament because the Law was still controversy
The K-pop fan community in the United States participated in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) anti-racism movement and dared to fight against police violence after the death of a black man named George Floyd in the hands of the Minneapolis police at the end of May
As reported by Newsweek, K-pop video attacks flooded portals belonging to the Philadelphia Fire Department and the Kirkland and Grand Rapids police, who initially, like the Dallas police, asked for public participation report criminal acts committed by demonstrators
Summary
In early October 2020, thousands of students in several major cities in Indonesia took to the streets to protest against the Omnibus Law, which the Indonesian Parliament passed on October 5, 2020; students and labor activists were dissatisfied with the government and Parliament because the Law was still controversy. Tweets in the top three come from the Generation Y cluster and K-Pop music fan accounts. This group dominates other hashtags carried by top public figure influencer @awkarin and K-pop lover account @beautifulyoongo. The @beautifulyoongo performance received the most responses, up to 24,000 retweets, compared to @awkarin, only half. This fact is unique because the @awkarin account owner is a public figure, while the @beautifulyoongo account owner is just an ordinary idol fan.
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