Indonesian Journal of Tourism and Leisure
Vol 6, No 1 (2025)

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modelling of International Media on Indonesia Tourism Sector Recovery

Rutba, Sita Aliya (Unknown)
Pramana, Setia (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Apr 2025

Abstract

The international world's perception of a country is essential. In 2022, Indonesia attracted international media attention, which can form the nation’s image of Indonesia in the international public perception. Therefore, this study analyses international media, online news, and social media Twitter perceptions towards Indonesia. For the news, aspect-based sentiment analysis is carried out, and for Twitter opinion, sentiment classification using multiple classification algorithms, and topic modeling related to these sentiments are carried out. Furthermore, this research classifies news sentiment based on aspects of forming the country's image, such as tourism, exports, diplomacy, government policies, and people's behavior. It was obtained that aspects of people, policy, and tourism, besides being classified as “none” class, mostly classified in negative sentiment. While diplomacy and export are mostly positive sentiment. One limitation of this classifier is the insufficient number of cases in the training data, which led to relatively low accuracy and precision in this study.  On Twitter opinion, it was found that Twitter's positive sentiment about Indonesia is associated with tourism recovery. The topic modeling of positive tweets highlighted international interest in Indonesia's tourism. This study's findings can provide valuable insights for the government on boosting foreign tourism to support economic growth. Additionally, policymakers should focus on addressing issues that attract foreign media attention. By effectively managing these concerns, Indonesia’s branding can be enhanced, potentially leading to an increase in tourist arrivals.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJTL

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Subject

Arts Humanities Environmental Science Social Sciences

Description

Indonesian Journal of Tourism and Leisure (IJTL) is peer review journal that aims at initiating and stimulating high-impact and innovative research relevant for academics and practitioners within the tourism and leisure to encourage the full range of approaches which are available to the study of ...