Pramono-Rano Karno Electability Follows RK-Suswono, Electability Rate Reaches 52.6 Percent

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Survey Panel (PSI) released the results of the electability survey of the pair of candidates for governor and deputy governor in Jakarta ahead of the 2024 Pilkada. As a result, Paslon's electability number 03, Pramono Anung-Ridwan Kamil outperformed candidate pair number 01, Ridwan Kamil-Suswono and candidate pair number 02, Dharma Pongrekun-Kun Wardana.

"The choice of the top of mind for the electability level of the Pramono Anung - Rano Karno pair reached 37.1 percent. The Ridwan Kamil-Suswono pair was selected at 30.4 percent," said PSI Executive Director Mahendra Zaini in his statement, Thursday, October 10.

"Meanwhile, the pair Dharma Pongrekun and Kun Wardana reached 4.6 percent, and those who did not or did not choose reached 27.9 percent," he continued.

Zaini continued, the survey also included a closed question by providing a sample of Pilkada ballots with the name and image of the candidate pair to be selected by respondents.

The results of the tabulation of ballot collection selected or voting showed that the Pramono Anung - Rano Karno pair was chosen at 52.6 percent.

"Then, the Ridwan Kamil -Suswono pair was chosen as much as 35.4 percent, then the Dharma Pongrekun and Kun Wardana pair were chosen as much as 5.4 percent and 6.6 percent did not choose," said Zaini.

Meanwhile, for the level of popularity, the Pramono Anung-Rano Karno pair reached 79.3 percent and the acceptance rate reached 84.3 percent. Then for the Ridwan Kamil-Suswono pair the popularity rate reached 75.8 percent and the acceptability rate reached 54.7 percent.

Then the pair Dharma Pongrekun and Kun Wardana's popularity reached 31.3 percent and the acceptability rate reached 18.4 percent.

"The results of this survey revealed that the loss of Ridwan Kamil - Suswono pair by the Pramono Anung - Rano Karno pair had a correlation with the assessment of 82.1 percent of Jakarta residents. It is considered that Ridwan Kamil's performance in West Java is not satisfactory and is considered to have failed to create West Java's economic progress," said Zaini.

This, continued Zaini, has a correlation with the results of a survey of former Ridwan Kamil volunteers while running as West Java Cagub in that 71.4 percent. Rindu Jabar Champion volunteers stated that Ridwan Kamil's performance did not satisfy the people of West Java.

"Where the Ridwan Kamil volunteers assessed that during his 4 years of leadership, Ridwan Kamil's performance as regional head was still minimal in achievement and there were more empty imaging," explained Zaini.

Ridwan Kamil's unsatisfactory performance during his time as Governor of West Java was confirmed with BPS data which showed that in 2018 the number of poor people in West Java was at 3.615 million when Ridwan Kamil began serving as Governor of West Java.

Meanwhile, at the end of Ridwan Kamil's position in 2023, the number of poor people in West Java increased to 3.89 million as of March 2023. In addition, the unemployment rate in West Java as of February 2023 occupies the second highest position in Indonesia.

"And from the survey data it was also revealed that the majority of respondents did not want Ridwan Kamil as governor of Jakarta because he had a red report when he was a leader in West Java. It was different for Jokowi-Ahok to run as governor and deputy governor of Jakarta to have a satisfactory leadership report value when he was the regional head," he said.

The survey was conducted on September 29-7 October 2024 through face-to-face interviews involving 1800 respondents who are residents of the province of Jakarta who have been registered with the 2024 Pilkada DPT.

The survey used a multistage random sampling method with a margin of error of up to 2.31 percent and a 95 percent confidence level, assuming a simple random sampling.