Groupthink Antecedent Conditions of the Social Media Team of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia

Aditya Arifiyanto; Prahastiwi Utari; Andre Noevi Rahmanto

doi:10.47814/ijssrr.v4i1.70

Aditya Arifiyanto Faculty of Social Science and Political Science, Communication Major Postgraduate Program of Eleven March University, Central Java, Indonesia
Prahastiwi Utari Faculty of Social Science and Political Science, Communication Major Postgraduate Program of Eleven March University, Central Java, Indonesia
Andre Noevi Rahmanto Faculty of Social Science and Political Science, Communication Major Postgraduate Program of Eleven March University, Central Java, Indonesia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47814/ijssrr.v4i1.70

Keywords: Group Communication, Netizens, Cohesiveness

Abstract

The use of information technology to communicate has become a new culture in recent years, one of which is the use of social media in communication. No exception government agencies also use to disseminate government policy information. At the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia, there is a team that specializes in managing the Ministry of Finance's social media accounts. Through this research will reveal whether the social media team of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia has the potential to indicate groupthink in the process of group communication in order to make effective decisions. This study will use Antecedent Conditions as a guideline for the main indicators. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method with semi-structured interviews as a way to retrieve data. Informants involved in this study were five people consisting of members of the Ministry of Finance's social media team from the January 2017 to December 2018 period. The results revealed that the Ministry of Finance social media team had the potential to Groupthink, this was known from group cohesion, organizational structure faults and external pressures that affect them at work.

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