Hashtag Anies Baswedan Must Be President 2024 Trending Topic, Netizens: Continue Jokowi's Leadership

President Joko Widodo and Anies Baswedan (Photo: DOK Setkab via Era.id)

JAKARTA - The hashtag Anies must be President 2024 #AniesHarusPresiden2024 suddenly became a trending topic on Twitter, Monday, January 10. Netizens are busy uploading Anies' works by including this hashtag.

As of 5:34 p.m., the hashtag has been written more than 10 thousand times. Various comments either supporting or questioning this hashtag have sprung up.

One of them came from the @bos_sir account which uploaded the moment when Anies Baswedan sat with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on a park bench.

Anies and Jokowi compactly wore white clothes while seriously talking. "Yes, Anies continues Jokowi's leadership through elections. In Jkt it has been proven, then in Indonesia," wrote the account.

There are also netizens who link Anies with the Human Development Index in Jakarta, which has shot up to the level of developed countries. "If Anies becomes president, imagine how great Indonesia will be," said the account @WongIndo****

On the opposing side, Anies' performance in various projects such as infiltration wells has been questioned. Failed in this project, netizens with the @pawang**** account are surprised that this hashtag is trending.

"Are you saying ##AniesHarusPresiden2024??? It's not okay to take care of the infiltration well, let alone take care of the country! #The @aniesbaswedan recharge well, sir," he quipped.

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The name Anies Baswedan in various national surveys does promise to run in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. The latest, a survey from the Indonesian Political Indicators Survey Institute regarding the figure most respondents chose to become a presidential candidate.

As a result, Prabowo Subianto, Ganjar Pranowo, and Anies Baswedan are the most elected if the presidential election is held today. These three names have often dominated previous presidential candidate surveys.

In the simulation of 33 names of figures without including Joko Widodo's name, Prabowo ranks highest with 22.4 percent electability, Ganjar gets 18.0 percent and Anies Baswedan gets 15.8 percent.

"Pak Prabowo is still ranked first, then Ganjar, then Anies. These three names reach 19 (percent) and above," said Executive Director of Indicators Burhanuddin Muhtadi in a virtual survey presentation, Sunday, January 9.

Below him, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono was chosen by 6.1 respondents, then Ridwan Kamil 4.1 percent, Sandiaga Uno 3.6 percent, Ma'ruf Amin 2.7 percent, Tri Rismaharini 2.3 percent, and a number of other names. which is under 2 percent.

Then, the simulation of 19 semi-open names was carried out for the election of presidential candidates. As a result, Prabowo, Ganjar, and Anies are still the top three most voted figures.

It is known that this survey was conducted in the period from 16 to 11 December 2021 to respondents of Indonesian citizens who were 17 years old or older, or were already married when the survey was conducted.

The survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews with 1,220 randomly selected respondents. The margin of error for this survey is estimated at around 2.9 percent and the survey confidence level is 95 percent.