1) The data found more bot activity for Jokowi's #01IndonesiaMaju hashtag compared to Prabowo's #2019GantiPresiden hashtag. 2) #2019GantiPresiden was consistently the top trending hashtag across all social media platforms. 3) Examples showed bot-like behavior for #01IndonesiaMaju including repetitive messages from accounts with few followers and high engagement from accounts with very low follower counts, while #2019GantiPresiden showed more natural patterns of engagement.

1. Robots in Jokowi and Prabowo
Cyber Team
This data was prepared for Reuters
Period: 6 Nov – 6 Dec 2018

2. Questions
• 1) What the bots activity for Prabowo and Jokowi has been according to your
data?
• 2) What has the overall activity been for both candidates on social media?
• 3) Any examples or research on bots, political posts, and campaigns that you'd be
willing to share for Jokowi and Prabowo on FB/Twitter/Instagram/etc...

3. Comparing 4 Hashtags
Jokowi: #01JokowiLagi, #01IndonesiaMaju; Prabowo: #2019GantiPresiden, #2019PrabowoSandi

4. Trends in All Media Types
#2019GantiPresiden is always on the top of the chart

5. Trends in Twitter
#2019GantiPresiden is on the top

6. Trends in Instagram
#2019GantiPresiden is on the top

7. Reference of Natural Coversation: ‘Buku’
Buku or book is usually natural in a conversation. In the period of monitoring, there are mostly natural users
who talk about book. The pattern of natural conversation: proportion of mention is lower that retweet,
indicating most users will retweet to some popular twets.

8. Frequency of twits by number of followers: ‘Buku’

9. Robot for #01IndonesiaMaju

10. SNA #01IndonesiaMaju
Many bots are used by several smaller groups of users
Robot
Robot
Robot
Robot
Real Users

11. #01IndonesiaMaju: Examples of most retweeted status

12. #01IndonesiaMaju: Engagement Types
The proportion for ‘Mention’ (blue) is very high, indicating so many new status posted to Twitter without
getting any retweet. This is tipical status sent by bots. Compare this with the ‘Book’, very different.

13. #01IndonesiaMaju: Number of Twits by Follower Sizes
So many twits sent by user with very low follower (0-3 and 4-25). Newly created bots usually have none or
very small number of followers. It is likely that the posts were sent by these bots.

14. #01IndonesiaMaju: Example of Twits by User 0-3 Followers (1)
Same messages, different users (bot), at the same minutes.

15. #01IndonesiaMaju: Example of Twits by User 0-3 Followers (2)
Same messages, different users (bot), at the same minutes.

16. #01IndonesiaMaju: Example of Twits by User 100+ Followers
Same user replies several messages at the same time. It seems some bots has many followers now.

17. @01IndonesiaMaju: Example of Most Popular Images in Twitter
Many images in the form of memes of program or achievement. Some images are not available, due to the
users are suspended (detected as bot by Twitter)
Suspended Accounts

18. @01IndonesiaMaju: Example of Most Popular Images in Twitter (2)
Many images in the form of memes of program or achievements.

19. #01IndonesiaMaju: Most Engaged Users

20. #01IndonesiaMaju: Instagram (1)
Same IG users tend to use the same or similar caption to share images.

21. #01IndonesiaMaju: Instagram (2)
Same IG users tend to use the same or similar caption to share images.

22. #01IndonesiaMaju: Instagram Images/Memes (1)

23. #01IndonesiaMaju: Instagram Images/Memes (2)

24. #01IndonesiaMaju: Most Liked IG Accounts

25. #2019GantiPresiden

26. SNA #2019GantiPresiden
Mostly by real users, less robots used in this campaign
Robot
Real Users

27. #2019GantiPresiden: Most retweeted status (1)

28. #2019GantiPresiden: Most retweeted status (2)
Dominated by the same key influencers

29. #2019GantiPresiden: Engagement Types
Mostly the proportion of mention (new twit) is lower that their retweet. Compare this to ‘Buku’, pretty similar,
although here the proportion of retweet is much higher. It is normal for campaign and political comversation
where most users would love to retweets.

30. #2019GantiPresiden: Number of Twits by Follower Sizes
Very low number of twits by users with small follower size. Mostly by users with 100+ follower and more. It is
more natural.

31. #2019GantiPresiden: Example of Twits by User 0-3 Followers (1)
Tend to be random

32. #2019GantiPresiden: Example of Twits by User 0-3 Followers (2)
There are some repeating messages, apparently by pro Jokowi’s bots

33. #2019GantiPresiden: Example of Twits by User 100+ Followers
Some bots from Pro Prabowo have a lot of followers

34. #2019GantiPresiden: Top shared images (1)
They love to send screenshot of news for online portals, and make them viral

35. #2019GantiPresiden: Top shared images (2)
They love to send screenshot of news for online portal

36. #2019GantiPresiden: Top Influencers

37. #2019GantiPresiden: Example of top IG posts (1)

38. #2019GantiPresiden: Example of top IG posts (2)

39. #2019GantiPresiden: Example of top IG images

40. #2019GantiPresiden: Top IG users

41. Summary
• Compared to the pattern of engagement types of ‘Buku’:
• #2019GantiPresiden is more similar to ’Buku’, where more retweets to few new twits.
• #01IndonesiaMaju is different, where more new twits or similar compared to retweets.
• Compared to the pattern of exposure (number of twits by the number of
followers):
• #2019GantiPresiden is more similar to ‘Buku’, where most posts by user with 100 or more followers.
• #01IndonesiaMaju is different, where more posts by users with 50 or less followers.
• Examples of messages by users with 0-3 folowers:
• #2019GantiPresiden: tends to be random, not easily found the same messages repeated by these
users.
• #01IndonesiaMaju: easily found same messages by different users at the same time.
• Examples of messages by uesrs with 100+ followers:
• #2019GantiPresiden: found several same users send different posts at the same time.
• #01IndonesiaMaju: found several same users retweeted different posts at the same time.