Survey Indicator: People Seem To Have Got Frustrated To Stay At Home

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Political Indicator Survey Institute explained that people who want large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to end, have increased from a survey several months ago.

Based on the results of a survey regarding public opinion on COVID-19 from the health and economic dimensions, Executive Director of Political Indicators, Burhanuddin Murtadi, said that currently 60.6 percent of the public thought that the PSBB was sufficient and could be stopped so that the economy could run immediately.

"Recently, cases of COVID-19 have even surpassed China. Meanwhile, people seem to have come to a point of frustration to stay at home. Because, at some point, if they stay at home they can't eat," Burhanuddin said in a webinar, Tuesday. , July 21.

Then, there are 34.7 percent of the public who think that PSBB is better to continue so that the spread of the corona virus can be overcome. Then, there were 4.7 percent of respondents who answered that they did not know or did not answer.

Meanwhile, in a survey conducted last May, there were more people who wanted PSBB to be continued than to end. In May, 43.1 percent of the population asked for an end to the PSBB.

However, there are 50.6 percent of the people who still want the PSBB to be continued in May. Then, there were 6.3 percent of people who answered that they didn't know or didn't answer.

"Now the map has changed once. If we check here there are extraordinary changes. Previously two months ago, the majority asked for PSBB to be continued, but now it is in the minority," he said.

Furthermore, if you look at the views of the community regarding the PSBB policy according to demographics, the ones who most wanted the PSBB to be ended were people with Betawi ethnicity with a share of 83.2 percent and Sundanese with 71.7 percent.

Meanwhile, the Betawi ethnic community who wanted the PSBB to be continued was 14.6 percent and the Sundanese people who wanted the PSBB to continue were 22.2. The rest, there are also many other ethnic groups who want the PSBB to be stopped, but the difference is not too far from those who want the PSBB to continue.

For information, this survey was conducted in the period from 13 to 16 July 2020. The survey was conducted on 1,200 people using telephone contacts to respondents who had been asked to survey the previous period.

This survey has a margin of error (tolerance of error) of 2.9 percent and has a confidence level of 95 percent. Samples come from all provinces that are proportionally distributed.