The Most Expected Candidate With Regional Head Background, LIPI: Proof Of Successful Regional Autonomy

JAKARTA - The Executive Director of the Indonesian Survey Flow (ASI) Ali Rif'an, revealed the results of a survey about the expectations of presidential candidates in 2024 based on their background. The presidential candidate with a regional head background was chosen by respondents with a percentage of 49.6 percent.

"Second, presidential candidates with academic or technocratic backgrounds with 16.2 percent. Third, political party backgrounds with 15 percent," Ali said in a statement via a zoom meeting, Tuesday, July 13.

The ASI survey was carried out on July 2-10, 2021, involving 130 experts/public opinion makers and using the purposive sampling method, namely the sampling was not taken at random and in accordance with the number of samples that had been determined from academics, student activists, political party leaders and a number of other elements .

Responding to the survey, researcher from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Lili Romli, assessed the survey description as evidence that regional autonomy in Indonesia was considered successful. Thus, the regional head is considered the most worthy of being a presidential candidate.

"The results of this survey show that regional autonomy is successful," said Lili Romli on the same occasion.

According to him, decentralization has produced results that can provide leadership training for regional heads, and can become their track record before leading the nation. Thus, regional heads become the main source of recruitment for leadership candidates at the central level.

"It's good that there is a level, there is leadership training. Let it be the main source for leadership recruitment," he said.

However, Lili warned that there is an anomaly behind decentralization. Because, he said, it was also feared that decentralization would lead to dynastic leadership.

"There needs to be some kind of democratization in the leadership in the regions, lest the regional heads be filled with political dynasties or dynastic politics," he said.