<![CDATA[Political speeches are an important medium for conveying a country’s leader’s vision, mission, and policy directions to the public. This study aims to identify and analyze the main topics in the video transcripts of President Joko Widodo’s political speeches during the 2014–2024 period using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method. The data consist of 185 press conference speech videos obtained from the Indonesian Cabinet Secretariat’s YouTube channel and converted into text using speech-to-text technology. The dataset is divided into 81 videos from the 2014–2023 period as training data and 104 videos from 2024 as testing data. The analysis process includes text preprocessing, rule-based automatic labeling, LDA model training, and evaluation using coherence score and perplexity. The results show that in the training data, the topics of Infrastructure and Economy are the dominant topics, reflecting the government’s focus on physical development and economic growth. In contrast, in the 2024 testing data, Healthcare emerges as the most dominant topic, followed by the topics of Infrastructure, Economy, Education, and Technology. The Infrastructure topic consistently achieves the highest coherence score of 0.85, indicating strong semantic consistency among its constituent terms. This study contributes to understanding the temporal dynamics of political communication and demonstrates the effectiveness of LDA in analyzing political speech data derived from video transcripts.]]>
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