The Tweetology of New and Renewable Energy in Indonesia

Abstract

The amount of unstructured data is increasing annually, which is promising forgaining insights. Twitter, a platform producing unstructured data, is currently one of the mostpopular media platforms used for conducting research on a topic's trend. This study attempts toanalyze the topic of New and Renewable Energy (NRE) in Indonesia. The purpose of this studyis to gain insights into the NRE topic trend over the last ten years by modeling the topicsdiscussed on Twitter and examining the location distribution of users who post tweets about thetopic. Accordingly, this study employed descriptive analysis, geocoding analysis, and topicmodeling. The results of descriptive analysis show that the development of NRE has acceleratedin recent years, particularly in 2021. Geocoding analysis reveals that the distribution of peoplewho engage in NRE posting activities is dominated by DKI Jakarta province. Topic modelingyielding two topics that were discussed the most by Indonesians over a 10-year period. The twotopics are related to government policies that support the development of NRE and electricity,which is Indonesia's focus in NRE. This study highlights the importance of analyzing theTweetology of NRE.