Big Data Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Policy in Indonesia: Democratic, Elitist, and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract In response to mitigate COVID-19 local transmission, the Indonesian government has launched several regulative policies. This paper aims analyze whether decision-making process of those policies is closed a democratic or elitist approach and adopted Artificial Intelligence (AI) in these processes. We focus on large-scale social distancing (PSBB), homecoming restriction Eid Mubarak (Mudik), new-normal life policy case studies. The research shown that elite roles are quite dominant with little consideration for public consultation attention use AI consider preferences. data were collected from two well-known national online media, which nasional.kompas.com tempo.co , while big mining analysis have been applied through N-Vivo 12 software. argue although paradigm can be recognized as an efficient pandemic emergency, decision-makers accommodate preferences if they get insights media news help technology.