SMRC Survey: Thanks To Allowing Homecoming, Community Satisfaction With Jokowi Increases To 75 Percent

JAKARTA - The survey institute Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) released a poll to identify the level of public satisfaction with President Joko Widodo after Eid 1443 H.

SMRC Executive Director Abbas said that in the past month, people's satisfaction with Jokowi's current performance was 76.7 percent. Meanwhile, 20.9 percent said they were less or not satisfied at all, and 2.4 percent did not answer.

Abbas said this figure increased 16 percent from the survey period a month earlier.

"In the past month, satisfaction with President Jokowi's performance rose from 65.5 percent in the 12-15 April 2022 survey to 76.7 percent in the last survey 10-12 May 2022", Abbas said in a written survey presentation, Wednesday, May 18.

Abbas continued, that one of the reasons for the increase in satisfaction with Jokowi's performance is the government's policy of allowing people to go home for Eid this year and also the current handling of COVID-19.

In the same survey period, around 76 percent of residents were very or quite satisfied with the government's work in organizing this year's homecoming. About 9 percent feel less or not satisfied at all, and 15 percent don't know or don't answer.

Meanwhile, around 75 percent of residents are satisfied with the work of the central government in dealing with Covid-19. Those who are less or dissatisfied are about 22 percent, and those who don't know or don't answer are around 3 percent.

"Residents who are satisfied with the government's performance in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak and organizing mudik tend to be satisfied with President Jokowi's performance. And vice versa", said Abbas.