Exit Poll Indicator: Controlling Prices Of Urgent Basic Needs Handled By New Leaders

The Indonesian Political Indicator survey agency's exit shows that controlling the prices of basic necessities is the most urgent issue that must be resolved by national leaders in the next five years.

Main Researcher of Indonesian Political Indicators Hendro Prasetyo said as many as 27.9 percent of the 2,975 political explicit respondents generally considered that controlling the price of basic necessities was the most urgent problem.

"As we all know, there is currently an increase in rice and chili prices," said Hendro at the Release of the 2024 Presidential Election Exit: The Demographic and Behavior Base for Voters reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, February 21.

In addition to controlling the price of basic necessities, he revealed the problem of eradicating corruption (16.3 percent), reducing poverty (14.9 percent), as well as providing jobs or unemployment (13.6 percent), is also another urgent problem. Thus, economic issues tend to dominate the most pressing problems that must be resolved by national leaders according to respondents.

Not only in general, Hendro said that based on the choice of presidential and vice presidential candidates (candidates and vice presidential candidates), controlling prices for basic necessities is also an urgent problem.

Based on respondents with the choice base of candidate pair number 1 Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar, 31.2 percent assessed that controlling the price of basic necessities was an urgent problem for the national leader to solve in the next five years.

Then in respondents with candidate base number 2 Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka, he continued, 26.5 percent considered the same thing. Likewise with the assessment of the majority of respondents with candidate base number 3 Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, which is 28 percent.

"Other problems are also mentioned, but still the most prominent thing is controlling the prices of basic necessities, both in general and according to the basis of each presidential and vice presidential candidate," he said.

Exit polls are interviews with voters who have just exercised voting rights at polling stations (TPS) on choice choices and backgrounds, including issues circulating during the campaign period.

In the exit of the 2024 election, Political Indicators used the face-to-face interview method by interviewers who had been trained to 2,975 respondents at 3,000 polling stations, with a margin of error (margin of error) +/- 1.8 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.