The aim of this study is to analyse a digital era political campaign through the 2019 Indonesian presidential election.

The thesis uses the concept of agenda setting to understand how President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) engaged with both social media and traditional news media during the 2019 election campaign.

The study examines this phenomenon through two primary methods. First, semi-structured interviews were conducted with government officials and news media journalists. This was combined with document analysis and social media content analysis to evaluate the characteristics of Jokowi’s political engagement on Facebook.

In this thesis, I develop three key findings: first, Jokowi integrated Facebook’s technological affordances and population reach for political advantage; second, social media platforms and traditional news media interacted and influenced one another in constructing the desired agenda and did so in a relatively peaceful manner; and third, the lessons from these Indonesian political communication practices have wider implications for democratic elections in a digital age.

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