USU PR - Rector of the Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) Dr. Muryanto Amin, S.Sos, MSi, was named the Most Popular Leader on Social Media 2022 in the Leader/CEO Category, Rector's Subcategory. The award was received by the Rector at the PR Indonesia Jamboree (Jampiro), November 8-10, 2022 in Surabaya.

In his statement, Dr. Muryanto Amin said that the award was given after a competent party carried out a long evaluation stage.

"PR Indonesia awarded the winner in the Leader/CEO category in the Rector sub-category as the most popular figure to me, after they carried out a long evaluation stage," he said.

For this award, the Rector thanked the organizers and the jury who had made the assessment. USU itself will continue to improve communication through the media.

"We will continue to use the media as our base at USU to communicate to the public," he added.

Apart from Rector Muryanto Amin, several figures who also received awards as the most popular leaders for different categories were Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Mahfud MD, Ridwan Kamil, Mochamad Basoeki Hadimoeljono, Andika Perkasa, Bima Arya and so on.

Director of Public Relations of Indonesia F Sutedjo in his statement explained that his party is working with Indonesia Indicator in monitoring the news of dozens of ministries/institutions/local governments/BUMN/BUMD/universities from three social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram).

Monitoring itself was carried out from January 1 to September 30 2022. Apart from using a real-time quantitative method, the assessment was also carried out qualitatively.

PR Indonesia itself consistently gives awards to every leader who succeeds in realizing the positive reputation of ministries/agencies/local governments/corporations/organizations in the eyes of the public, especially netizens.

"We named this award the PR INDONESIA Most Popular Leader on Social Media," he said. (©ULC)

Author: Bambang Riyanto - Humas

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Photographer: Irsan Mulyadi - Humas