By: Rika Prasetya) *
After the second debate, not only did local media expose Prabowo who seemed to stutter when asked about the Unicorn by presidential candidate No. 01 Jokowi. Al Jazeera mentioned that Prabowo was hesitant in answering it.
Then the gesture and semiotics expert from the Bandung Institute of Technology ITB Acep Iwan Saidi considered Prabowo Subianto unsure of his own words when talking about unicorns in the second presidential debate. Well, Prabowo seemed nervous, unsure and stuttering.
The Unicorn effect is increasingly viral internationally. If the first debate is only viral in the country but this time the virus reaches the western part of the earth, to Europe. Because the reach of Al Jazeera with the media in English is very broad. USA Today too.
Indonesia ‘s presidential candidate debates some of the largest third largest democracy: listed infrastructure struggling farmers, forest fires and unicorns.
Editorials from USA Today are considered fun in entering ic unicorn ’as the main topic. But it turned out that ‘unicorn’ was the main and warmest talk in cyberspace.
Then the USA today apparently updated the alias to keep abreast of developments in social media after a noisy debate. He said that on Twitter and Facebook there were flooded memes from unicorns.
What effect will it have on the millennium about Prabowo’s stuttering with the unicorn? In the world of social media, millennials are busy discussing this issue and potentially erode Prabowo’s voice in millennial circles.
Monitoring social media analysis Drone Emprit pointed out the topic of this unicorn was ‘eaten’ by Warganet after the debate. Drone Emprit’s founder and data analyst, Ismail Fahmi revealed, after the debate the conversation about Unicorn was very rapid. There were 96 thousand mentions on Twitter and 2.5 thousand in online media. In addition, the level of unicorn topic interaction is also high, which is 4.15 which describes the conversation of this topic as natural.
Another interesting finding is the interaction of uploading questions about unicorns from top influencers and other clusters that support this camp. The average upload from this cluster satirizes Prabowo’s comments and responses about Jokowi’s questions about unicorns. The average cluster post gets thousands of retweets and twitter likes.
Dr Emprit found the top tweets based on the number of retweets dominated by 01. From this data. Ismail argued that if not handled appropriately, the issue of unicorn could potentially disrupt the voices of young people to Prabowo.
In the second debate, Jokowi asked Prabowo about the strategy for developing Unicorns in Indonesia.
Prabowo said, in principle supporting the development of the Indonesian Unicorn by providing facilities for the digital economy driving platform. The presidential candidate number 02 is in competition, it is necessary to reduce regulations to startups, so that later unicorns appear to be more developed.
Prabowo also gave an important note on the growth of the Unicorn pulse in Indonesia. According to him, do not let the pattern of disparity in wealth in the country is only enjoyed by a handful of people, of which less than one percent of people control more than half of Indonesia’s wealth.
“So if there are unicorns there is great technology, I am afraid this will speed up our value-added and money run out of the country. This is what I’m worried about if you please laugh, but this is a matter of Indonesia’s wealthy nation not living in Indonesia, “Prabowo said
In the end of the article Al Jazeera and USA today included Jokowi’s superiority or electability, currently around 20% superior to Prabowo.
While political observer Veri Muchlis believes that the presidential election in April will actually predict the winner. As is known in the survey for the past two years, jokowi’s electability is always higher than Prabowo’s.
Veri also explained that what happened in the presidential election this time was a rematch. The 2014 presidential candidates and 2019 together with the people namely Joko Widodo and challenger Prabowo Subianto.
In the past, when these two people had not worked as presidents, together with zero experience in leading the country, Jokowi won the contestation. Now when the rematch takes place, Jokowi’s capital is far more convincing.
Veri analyzed, the average survey found that Jokowi’s electability was above the psychological limit of victory, which was 54 percent. This figure is above Jokowi’s vote in the 2014 presidential election, which was 53.15 percent. According to him, because his position is a fight again, then the tendency of his supporters is also so, they will again support his candidate.
“I think the old supporters of Jokowi should be suspected of having decided to re-elect him, while the new voters or voters in the presidential election then the abstentions have a tendency to become a voter. That is why the voice contested is low. Jokowi also still has the opportunity to add supporters from the undecided voters group and if that happens the Prabowo target group gets narrower, “he said.
The presidential debate will certainly give an overview to all audiences about the way of thinking of candidates, not only Indonesian people who provide ratings, even foreign media also highlight the party of democracy in Indonesia.
The survey results related to electability are certainly not a final decision, but all the analysis revealed by experts, of course, can make a strategic reference for the success team.
) * The author is a contributor to the Indonesian Strategic Information Study Institute (LSISI)