The Quality of Public Information on Twitter: Yogyakarta And DKI Jakarta Regional Government Comparison

Main Article Content

Iman Amanda Permatasari
Achmad Nurmandi
Junior Hendri Wijaya

Abstract

Twitter is considered one of the most appropriate media or platforms to realize transparency, participation, and accountability in governance. Social media adoption is also carried out by the Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta and the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY).  This study aimed to explain the quality of public information of the Yogyakarta Provincial Government and the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government through Twitter in 2019. The method used was descriptive qualitative by depicting a comparison of public information quality of both regional governments. The content analysis was processed with Nvivo application 12 Plus by collecting research data through Twitter accounts, online media, and literature reviews.  The results showed that the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and the Yogyakarta Provincial Government actively used Twitter to convey information. The use of Twitter @humas_jogja by the Yogyakarta Provincial Government has fulfilled five public information quality variables: transparency (52%), participation (53%), trust (32%), human resource capacity (50%), and accountability (62%). Meanwhile, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government Twitter account had a transparency value (47%), participation (48%), trust (68%), human resource capacity (49%), and accountability (37%). Each provincial government had a relationship with these variables. Therefore, it could be seen that the public information on Twitter of the Yogyakarta Provincial Government and the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government had the quality. This article contributes to the government's evaluation of Twitter adoption and its relationship to the quality of public information provided to the public.

Dimensions

Article Details

Section
Articles

References

Akuntono, I. (2015) Ini 10 Daerah dengan Keterbukaan Informasi Publik Terbaik. [Online]. 2015. KOMPAS.com. Available from: https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2015/12/15/13452021/Ini.10.Daerah.dengan.Keterbukaan.Informasi.Publik.Terbaik [Accessed: 3 November 2019].

Andhika, L.R., Nurasa, H., Karlina, N. & Candradewini, C. (2019) Innovation of Regional Participation Budgeting Through A Social Media Platform Model. Jurnal Borneo Administrator. [Online] 15 (2), 159–178. Available from: doi:10.24258/jba.v15i2.387.

Anisa, R. & Rachmaniar, R. (2019) Media Informasi dan Komunikasi Pemerintah Provinsi Jawa Barat. LONTAR: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi. [Online] 7 (1), 36–40. Available from: https://e-jurnal.lppmunsera.org/index.php/LONTAR/article/view/1568.

Azeharie, S. & Azeharie, S. (2014) Fungsi Komunikasi Media Sosial Twitter Pelaksana Tugas Gubernur DKI Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. Jurnal Komunikasi Universitas Tarumanagara. [Online] 6 (3), 85–92. Available from: https://journal.untar.ac.id/index.php/komunikasi/article/view/42.

Batubara, R.M. (2017) Pengaruh Penggunaan Media Sosial Terhadap Transfer Pengetahuan dan Kinerja Pegawai Pemerintahan. Jurnal Riset Sains Manajemen. [Online] 1 (1), 55–66. Available from: http://www.ejurnal.id/index.php/jsm/article/view/16.

Bazeley, P. & Jackson, K. (2019) Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo. SAGE Publications.

Darwis, Y. & Rizal, Y. (2015) Pengaruh Kualitas Informasi Facebook Terhadap Pembentukan Citra Positif Pemerintah Kota Padang (Studi Pada Media Sosial Facebook Humas dan Protokol Kota Padang, September 2014 - Maret 2015). Communication. [Online] 6 (2). Available from: doi:10.36080/comm.v6i2.41.

Díaz-Díaz, R. & Pérez-González, D. (2016) Implementation of Social Media Concepts for e-Government. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. [Online] 28 (3), 104–121. Available from: doi:10.4018/JOEUC.2016070107.

Ellison, N. & Hardey, M. (2014) Social Media and Local Government: Citizenship, Consumption and Democracy. Local Government Studies. [Online] 40 (1), 21–40. Available from: doi:10.1080/03003930.2013.799066.

Farhatiningsih, L. (2018) Optimalisasi Penggunaan Instagram dalam Praktik Kehumasan Pemerintah. Diakom : Jurnal Media dan Komunikasi. [Online] 1 (1), 1–9. Available from: doi:10.17933/diakom.v1i1.14.

Feroz Khan, G., Young Yoon, H., Kim, J. & Woo Park, H. (2014) From e-government to social government: Twitter use by Korea’s central government. Online Information Review. [Online] 38 (1), 95–113. Available from: doi:10.1108/OIR-09-2012-0162.

Fitriani, Y. (2017) Analisis Pemanfaatan Berbagai Media Sosial Sebagai Sarana Penyebaran Informasi Bagi Masyarakat. Paradigma. [Online] 19 (2), 148–152. Available from: https://ejournal.bsi.ac.id/ejurnal/index.php/paradigma/article/view/2120.

Furqon, M.A., Hermansyah, D., Sari, R., Sukma, A., et al. (2018) Analisis Jenis Posting Media Sosial Pemerintah Daerah di Indonesia Berdasarkan Like dan Analisis Sentimental Masyarakat. Jurnal Sosioteknologi. [Online] 17 (2), 177. Available from: doi:10.5614/sostek.itbj.2018.17.2.1.

Gao, X. & Lee, J. (2017) E-government services and social media adoption: Experience of small local governments in Nebraska state. Government Information Quarterly. [Online] 34 (4), 627–634. Available from: doi:10.1016/j.giq.2017.09.005.

Graham, M.W., Avery, E.J. & Park, S. (2015) The role of social media in local government crisis communications. Public Relations Review. [Online] 41 (3), 386–394. Available from: doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2015.02.001.

Gruzd, A. & Roy, J. (2016) Social Media and Local Government in Canada: An Examination of Presence and Purpose. In: [Online]. pp. 79–94. Available from: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17722-9_5.

Gunawong, P. (2015) Open Government and Social Media. Social Science Computer Review. [Online] 33 (5), 587–598. Available from: doi:10.1177/0894439314560685.

Hutagalung, S. (2016) Media Sosial, Pejabat Publik dan Good Governance. In: Seminar Nasional Grand Design Reformasi Aparatur Sipil Negara. 14 November 2016 pp. 98–117.

Juanda, H. (2017) Media Sosial Sebagai Penyebarluasan Informasi Pemerintah Aceh. Jurnal Peurawi. [Online] 1 (1). Available from: https://www.jurnal.ar-raniry.ac.id/index.php/peurawi/article/view/1988.

Juditha, C. (2018) Demokrasi di Media Sosial: Kasus Polemik Rancangan Undang-Undang Pemilihan Kepala Daerah. Jurnal PIKOM (Penelitian Komunikasi dan Pembangunan). [Online] 17 (1), 1. Available from: doi:10.31346/jpikom.v17i1.1354.

Juditha, C. (2014) Opini Publik Terhadap Kasus ‘KPK Lawan Polisi’ dalam Media Sosial Twitter. Jurnal Pekommas. [Online] 17 (2), 61–70. Available from: https://jurnal.kominfo.go.id/index.php/pekommas/article/view/1170201.

Karakiza, M. (2015) The Impact of Social Media in the Public Sector. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. [Online] 175, 384–392. Available from: doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.1214.

Kim, K.-S., Sin, S.-C.J. & Yoo-Lee, E.Y. (2014) Undergraduates’ Use of Social Media as Information Sources. College & Research Libraries. [Online] 75 (4), 442–457. Available from: doi:10.5860/crl.75.4.442.

Kim, S.K., Park, M.J. & Rho, J.J. (2015) Effect of the Government’s Use of Social Media on the Reliability of the Government: Focus on Twitter. Public Management Review. [Online] 17 (3), 328–355. Available from: doi:10.1080/14719037.2013.822530.

Mainka, A., Hartmann, S., Stock, W.G. & Peters, I. (2014) Government and Social Media: A Case Study of 31 Informational World Cities. In: 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. [Online]. January 2014 IEEE. pp. 1715–1724. Available from: doi:10.1109/HICSS.2014.219.

Martiyanti, E. (2017) Pemprov DKI Komitmen Terapkan Keterbukaan Informasi Publik - Beritajakarta.id. [Online]. 2 August 2017. beritajakarta.id. Available from: https://www.beritajakarta.id/read/47808/pemprov-dki-komitmen-terapkan-keterbukaan-informasi-publik [Accessed: 11 March 2019].

Mergel, I. (2014) Social media adoption. In: Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o ’14. [Online]. 2014 New York, New York, USA, ACM Press. pp. 163–170. Available from: doi:10.1145/2612733.2612740.

Mergel, I. (2017) Social Media Communication Modes in Government. In: Yu-Che Chen & Michael J. Ahn (eds.). Routledge handbook on information technology in government. [Online]. New York, Routledge. pp. 168–179. Available from: https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/43000.

Munandar, H. & Suherman, M. (2016) Prosiding HubunganMasyarakat Aktivitas Komunikasi Pemerintahan Ridwan Kamil di Media Sosial. In: Prosiding Hubungan Masyarakat. [Online]. 16 March 2016 pp. 423–430. Available from: http://karyailmiah.unisba.ac.id/index.php/humas/article/view/3270.

N. Almarez DM, D. & D. Malawani, A. (2016) The Social Media as a Transformative Agent in the Electoral Process. Journal of Government and Politics. [Online] 7 (3). Available from: doi:10.18196/jgp.2016.0033.

Nica, E., Popescu, G.H., Nicolăescu, E. & Constantin, V.D. (2014) The Effectiveness of Social Media Implementation at Local Government Levels. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences. [Online] 10 (SI), 152–166. Available from: https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/418.

Nurrohman, M.F., Purworini, D. & Nofrandilla, N. (2016) Pemerintah dan Media Sosial Studi Deskriptif Kuantitatif Persepsi Pegawai Humas dan Protokol SETDA Surakarta Terhadap Media Sosial. [Online]. Surakarta, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. Available from: http://eprints.ums.ac.id/43878/.

Panagiotopoulos, P., Bigdeli, A.Z. & Sams, S. (2014) Citizen–government collaboration on social media: The case of Twitter in the 2011 riots in England. Government Information Quarterly. [Online] 31 (3), 349–357. Available from: doi:10.1016/j.giq.2013.10.014.

Porumbescu, G.A. (2016) Linking public sector social media and e-government website use to trust in government. Government Information Quarterly. [Online] 33 (2), 291–304. Available from: doi:10.1016/j.giq.2016.04.006.

Putri, R.M.E. & Pahlawan, I. (2015) Pengaruh Media Sosial Facebook Terhadap Jatuhnya Rezim Pemerintahan Hosni Mubarak di Mesir Tahun 2011. Jurnal Online Mahasiswa (JOM) Bidang Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik. [Online] 2 (2), 1–12. Available from: https://jom.unri.ac.id/index.php/JOMFSIP/article/view/7527.

Rahmanto, A.N. & Dirgatama, C.H.A. (2018) The implementation of e-government through social media use in local government of Solo Raya. In: 2018 International Conference on Information and Communications Technology (ICOIACT). [Online]. March 2018 IEEE. pp. 765–768. Available from: doi:10.1109/ICOIACT.2018.8350763.

Roengtam, S., Nurmandi, A., Almarez, D.N. & Kholid, A. (2017) Does social media transform city government? A case study of three ASEAN cities. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. [Online] 11 (3), 343–376. Available from: doi:10.1108/TG-10-2016-0071.

Setiawan, H. & Santoso, P. (2013) Model Optimalisasi Peluang Pemanfaatan Media Jejaring Sosial dalam Implementasi E-Governance di Indonesia. In: Seminar Nasional Informatika (SEMNASIF) 2013. [Online]. 2013 p. Available from: http://www.jurnal.upnyk.ac.id/index.php/semnasif/article/view/854.

Song, C. & Lee, J. (2016) Citizens’ Use of Social Media in Government, Perceived Transparency, and Trust in Government. Public Performance & Management Review. [Online] 39 (2), 430–453. Available from: doi:10.1080/15309576.2015.1108798.

Spiliotopoulou, L., Charalabidis, Y., N. Loukis, E. & Diamantopoulou, V. (2014) A framework for advanced social media exploitation in government for crowdsourcing. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. [Online] 8 (4), 545–568. Available from: doi:10.1108/TG-01-2014-0002.

Susanto, E.H. (2017) Media Sosial Sebagai Pendukung Jaringan Komunikasi Politik. Jurnal ASPIKOM. [Online] 3 (3), 379. Available from: doi:10.24329/aspikom.v3i3.123.

Widiyanto, N., Sandhyaduhita, P.I., Hidayanto, A.N. & Munajat, Q. (2016) Exploring information quality dimensions of government agency’s information services through social media: a case of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Indonesia. Electronic Government, an International Journal. [Online] 12 (3), 256. Available from: doi:10.1504/EG.2016.078421.