IPI Survey: Public Trusts The Attorney General's Office More Than KPK

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Political Indicators Survey (IPI) has released the latest survey results regarding public trust in state institutions.

As a result, IPI noted that the level of public trust in the Attorney General's Office (AGO) was higher than the courts and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Based on the survey results, the AGO is in the fourth position as the most trusted state institution with a confidence level of 74.5 percent. This figure is up from the previous level of trust in law enforcement agencies which reached 60.5 percent.

Meanwhile, the first position is occupied by the TNI with 93.2 percent, the second with 84.5 percent of the President, and the National Police with 76.4 percent. The four Attorney General's Offices at 74.5 percent, the Fifth Courts at 73.9 percent and the six KPK at 73.3 percent.

"The most trusted institutions from first to third have not changed, the difference is that in June, the Attorney General's Office pushed to the top. Its public trust overtook the courts and the KPK compared to April," said Executive Director of Indicators Burhanuddin Muhtadi when presenting the results. virtual survey, Monday, July 11th.

However, Burhanuddin regretted the findings of the survey of institutions that were at the bottom. This is because people do not trust political institutions. In fact, he said, these institutions are the embodiment of democracy.

In seventh place, the MPR is 64.7 percent, the DPD is 64.6 percent and the DPR is 62.6 percent. Meanwhile, political parties are only 56.6 percent.

"Again, trust in political institutions that are the windows of democracy, such as political parties, DPR, DPD, MPR, is relatively lower than the others. Even though the DPR MPR is the most important institution. Unfortunately, their rating in the eyes of the public is consistently at the bottom. , even though democracy cannot be separated from political parties," he explained.

The IPI survey was conducted on June 16-24, 2022, involving 1,200 respondents. The samples came from all provinces which were proportionally distributed using the multistage random sampling method.

The assumption of the simple random sampling method is that the base sample size of 1,200 respondents has a margin of error of about ±2.9 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.