Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Applications (JAIEA)
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2026): October 2026

Sentiment Analysis of Public Opinion on the Whoosh High-Speed Railway Debt Controversy on Facebook Using the Naïve Bayes Model

Meisyari Andini (STMIK KAPUTAMA)
Akim Manaor Hara Pardede (STMIK Kaputama)
Muammar Khadapi (STMIK Kaputama)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Oct 2026

Abstract

The controversy surrounding the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Rail (Whoosh) project’s debt has triggered significant public opinion polarization on Facebook. This research aims to analyze public sentiment regarding this financial issue to transform unstructured data into strategic insights for stakeholders. The applied methodology follows the CRISP-DM framework using the Naïve Bayes Classifier algorithm reinforced by Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) weighting. Primary data consisted of 2,000 comments from the "Nusa Update" fan page, which underwent thorough text preprocessing including cleansing, normalization, and stemming to reduce noise. Results indicate that the classification model achieved an overall accuracy of 83.75%, exceeding the 80% target. Sentiment distribution analysis reveals a dominance of negative opinions at over 80%, reflecting public concern over cost overruns and the burden on the state budget (APBN). These findings are implemented into an interactive Streamlit-based dashboard to facilitate real-time monitoring of public policy reputation. This study confirms the effectiveness of hybrid approaches in transforming "digital waste" into measurable scientific information.

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JAIEA

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Automotive Engineering Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering

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The Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Applications (JAIEA) is a peer-reviewed journal. The JAIEA welcomes papers on broad aspects of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering which is an always hot topic to study, but not limited to, cognition and AI applications, engineering ...