Prabowo's Popularity Is Top, People Want Authoritative Leaders

Prabowo Subianto (Photo: Instagram @prabowo)

JAKARTA - The executive director of TRUST Indonesia Research and Consulting, Azhari Ardian, said that the name Prabowo Subianto is still the highest in public perception as a presidential candidate in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

"What is in their heads (respondents, ed) we ask, and it turns out that prabowo subianto is still the highest," said Azhari in a survey released today, Monday, January 31.

He said, from the data published today for open questions, the name Prabowo Subianto got a score of 22.7 percent. Then followed by Anies Baswedan who got 14.7 percent, Ganjar Pranowo who got 11.0 percent. Then, Joko Widodo got 10.8 percent and Sandiaga Uno got 6.7 percent.

However, for the closed question category, Prabowo still occupies the highest position. Where Prabowo Subianto got 25.0 percent, then Anies Baswedan 16.3 percent, Ganjar Pranowo got 16.1 percent, Sandiaga Uno 7.8 percent.

"Pak Prabowo is 25 percent, followed by Anies Rasyid Baswedan and Ganjar. That's the top three, roughly," he said.

Then, for the survey with the category of strong voters, the name Prabowo Subianto also still found a higher number than the names of other presidential candidates who were proposed. Where Prabowo got 15.8 percent, while Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo each got 11.7 percent.

Meanwhile, the name Sandiaga Uno only got 4.5 percent, and the Chairman of the Democratic Party AHY also only got 3.9 percent.

Not only that, TRUST also measured 3 names of presidential candidates who have the potential to be chosen by the people in the 2024 presidential election, the name Prabowo was again superior, namely 39.2 percent, while the name Anies Baswedan got 31.5 percent, and Puan Maharani got 8.4 percent.

In addition to measuring the electability and potential electability of presidential candidates, TRUST also measures the background of respondents giving their assessment of the figure of the 2024 presidential candidate.

It turned out that the majority judged that authority was still the highest order, namely 20.6 percent, then from the aspect of assertiveness it got 19.9 percent, then Populist at 12.1 percent and smart and experienced got 10.4 percent.

The TRUST Indonesia survey was conducted on January 3-12, 2022, involving 1,200 respondents in 34 provinces throughout Indonesia. They conducted the survey through face-to-face data collection using a multistage sampling stage methodology and resulted in an MoE (margin of error) of 2.83 percent.