Are University Students Independent: Twitter Sentiment Analysis of Independent Learning in Independent Campus Using RoBERTa Base IndoLEM Sentiment Classifier Model

Higher education is one of the fields that is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the regulations in Indonesian higher education is Merdeka Learning - Independent Campus (MB-KM). In this research article we are aiming to do an analysis of the sentiment using Twitter as the dataset in order to find out the sentiment of university students towards the program. The analysis was being done using RoBERTa Base IndoLEM Sentiment Classifier Model. With the total number of more than 30 thousand positive sentiments and almost 20 thousand negative sentiments found. The result of the model shows that it achieved an accuracy of 91.73%, with a precision of 83.33%, recall 89.74%, and a harmonic mean of the two (F1 score) of 86.42%. Based on the analysis, it also shows the distribution of the sentiment is 63.0% of positive sentiment and 37.0% of negative sentiments. This paper shows that there are more positive sentiments than the negative one.