Abstract:
People campaigned for the #VaksinMerahPutih hashtag on Twitter, arguing that the
government did not provide full support, especially regarding funding for the vaccine initiated
by the 6 research institutions. In fact, the government and epidemiologists admit that
scientific procedures are carried out correctly. Besides that, there are still many people who
do not know about this vaccine, it is shown by LIPI's research results that the popularity of
Merah Putih vaccine is still far below the Nusantara vaccine, which has not passed Clinical
Trial I by BPOM. The campaign on Twitter was quite successful in trending #VaksinMerahPutih
to become the 1st trending on Twitter with a total of 43.6K tweets on September 6, 2021. The
purpose of this study was to determine the conversation and communication network on the
hashtag #VaksinMerahPutih on Twitter, and to find out the role of actors.
This study uses the Social Network Analysis Method with the Netlytic. com to find an actor of
networking and its communication role. The results of this research show that there are 5
main networks (clicks) with their respective network members. At the actor level, 5 accounts
are considered as a popular actor. There are 1 account intermediary relations on this network
that can connect one account to another to communicate with each other. The analysis of the
roles of the actors shows that there are 5 actors who act as gatekeepers in their network.
