The presence of twitter as medium that has been widely used by various groups of people. The community’s habit of posting tweets to assess a government policy discourse can be assessed as one of the media in representing the community’s response to the policy discourse. The policy discourse related to the prohibition of veils and Islamic trousers for the State Civil Apparatus is reaping contradictions from the public, especially twitters users. Public opinion can be analyzes using sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis is a field of study that analyzes a person’s opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes and emotions expressed in text form. Public opinion in the form of tweets will be collected by web crawling using the twitter application program interface (API). The data is processed using natural language processing (NLP) and python programming language. This study aims to produce information on public sentiment related to the prohibition of wearing veils and Islamic trousers for the State Civil Apparatus. This study uses the Naïve Bayes Classifier algorithm to classify 219 positive tweets and 333 negative tweets. The results of testing the accuracy of this study were 86%.
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