Political Music in the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election: Expression and Copyright Challenges

This study aims to analyze the use of music in the 2024 Indonesian presidential election. Although the election was completed on February 15, 2024, the use of music as a campaign tool took place massively. This study tries to observe how music can influence public opinion to determine the direction of choice and how the public responds to the use of music in politics, in which musicians are seen as tending to be politically affiliated with or support certain candidates. Thus, a survey method was used to obtain these data. Through the approach of political involvement theory and supported by interviews, it can be seen how musicians have strategies for creating political songs. The results showed that some musicians chose to hide their names so that there would be no backlash among their fans, while others felt afraid that their candidate would lose and affect their careers. This study provides a comprehensive picture of the condition of music in Indonesia that is in contact with the politics of the 2024 presidential election and becomes a kind of roadmap for the use of music in the world of politics in the future.