Ahead Of The Presidential Election And 2024 Election Survey Institutes Compete, How To Respond To It?

JAKARTA - Soon Indonesia will again hold a democratic party simultaneously. The presidential election and the 2024 general election are in sight. The excitement ahead of the democratic party has been seen with many survey institutions showing off their research results. Responding to the results of the research, all parties must be wise.

Many presidential candidate electability surveys for the 2024 presidential election have actually made the public more confused and uneducated. This is because the survey results in Indonesia are often used to manipulate certain parties.

Senior Golkar Party politician Azis Samual hopes that the public will not easily believe the statements of observers who comment on every survey result that appears. Often there is another meaning to the appearance of the survey results.

"Don't be too quick to believe and jump to conclusions about a survey agency's results, because it can be misleading," Azis Samual told reporters in Jakarta, Wednesday, January 19.

This was said by Aziz Samual in response to comments from an observer who said that Airlangga Hartarto's electability was low, referring to the results of one survey agency. "I think it's too early if we don't do anything to immediately draw conclusions about everything, especially if the results of the survey are the results of a survey agency," continued Azis.

However, Azis also understands that not all survey institutions produce incorrect results, based on orders from certain parties. “I believe that many survey institutions work independently without a political agenda, so that the results are objective and accountable. Meanwhile, there are also many survey results that are not independent, which are part of the agenda of certain political interests and they are not neutral, so the data cannot be accounted for,” said Azis.

Azis also explained that as the political year approaches, especially the presidential election in 2024, the public will find many survey institutions releasing various survey results, depending on their respective backgrounds, on whose orders, for whose interests and so on. “In essence, we must read the data carefully. Don't be wrong in analyzing, especially political observers who take statements," said Azis.

Aziz admitted that the General Chairperson, Airlangga Hartarto, deserved to be called a quality figure both as the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and as the General Chair of the Golkar Party.

The assessment was included in a monitoring carried out by an independent institution such as the Indonesia Indicator on influential figures in the media, early last January, showing significant findings on the popularity of a number of public officials in Indonesia.

The name Airlangga Hartarto occupies the third position as the most influential figure in the media throughout 2021. The first place is occupied by President Joko Widodo, while the second place is occupied by the National Police Chief Listyo Sigit.

The data monitored by Indonesia Indicator is based on monitoring the number of reports, the number of statements and the number of quotations of national figures in the media. Throughout 2021, there were 309,659 times Airlangga's statements were published by the media. Underneath are the names of DKI Governor Anies Baswedan and Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan. These results show that Airlangga is an influential figure in Indonesia.

Azis hopes that survey institutions that publish their survey results ahead of the presidential election and the 2024 general election and political observers to be more careful in conveying information, because it can lead to misinterpretation.