Journal of Scientific Research, Education, and Technology
Vol. 4 No. 4 (2025): Vol. 4 No. 4 2025

Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis for Indonesian Monetary Policy

Akbar Ramadhan (Unknown)
Umar Zaky (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
04 Dec 2025

Abstract

This research develops a cross-lingual sentiment analysis system (RoBERTa-IndoBERT) to monitor public opinion on Bank Indonesia’s 2025 monetary policy from X (Twitter), addressing the scarcity of Indonesian labels and noisy social media text. We introduce a "translate-then-classify" pipeline: Indonesian posts are translated into English, auto-labeled by a mature English RoBERTa model, and these labels are used to fine-tune IndoBERT on the original texts. We compare this cross-lingual (CL) approach, with and without back-translation (BT) augmentation, against a baseline Indo-only model. Performance measured by Accuracy and Macro-F1 indicates the CL pipeline is substantially better than the baseline. The complete model (IndoBERT + CL + BT) yields a Macro-F1 of 98.1%, a 2.8 percentage point (pp) improvement over the baseline (95.3%). Qualitative error analysis corroborates the CL model is more stable, less prone to extreme polarity flips, and better at detecting implicit sentiment. This research demonstrates that a CL auto-labeling pipeline is an efficient and resilient solution for Indonesian sentiment analysis in low-resource scenarios.

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Journal Info

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jrest

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Subject

Computer Science & IT Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Engineering Social Sciences

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FOCUS AND SCOPE JSRET (Journal of Scientific Research, Education, and Technology) encourages scientific and technological research, particularly with regard to Indonesia, but not just in terms of authorship or regional coverage of current issues. Scientists, instructors, senior researchers, project ...