Ridwan Kamil Enters Potential Presidential Candidate Survey Version, Observers Consider It Reasonable: West Java Is One Of The Keys To The Political Map

Governor of West Java (West Java) M Ridwan Kamil. (ANTARA/HO-Humas West Java Regional Government)

JAKARTA - West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil is one of the figures who have the potential to run in the 2024 Presidential Election. This is based on the results of a survey published by CigMark.

Seeing this condition, researcher from the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Philips J. Vermonte called this reasonable. This is because West Java is one of the key areas for the political map in Indonesia.

"West Java is also one of the big ballparks. So it's not surprising that the vote of voters in West Java has always been a bone of contention for political parties and candidates who take part in the contestation of democratic parties," said Philips in his statement, Wednesday, July 6.

Therefore, Phillips said that the regional head in West Java, in this case Ridwan Kamil, has the potential to appear in various surveys of presidential and vice presidential candidates.

"Kang Emil, in my opinion, has a solid voice in West Java. He can offset the possibility of other candidates taking votes in Central Java and East Java," he said.

Phillips said that voters in West Java could compensate if candidates who participated in the presidential election lost their votes in Central and East Java. As is known, the island of Java is a granary for election votes.

"If you are a candidate who cannot penetrate Central Java or East Java, so that the votes are not too unequal, win West Java," said Phillips.

Based on the latest survey conducted on June 9-17, Ridwan Kamil, who is usually called Kang Emil, is included in the ranks of names that have the potential to become presidential and vice presidential candidates.

Founder of CiGMark Setia Darma even said that Ridwan Kamil has now entered the ranks of candidates with high electability reaching 80.1 percent.

In fact, his electability only lost to Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto whose electability reached 95.8 percent; DKI Jakarta Governor Anies with an electability of 83.7 percent; and Sandiaga Uno whose electability reached 83.2 percent.

"Meanwhile, under RK, there are other big names such as Ganjar Pranowo, Puan Maharani, and Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY)," said Setia Darma when releasing his survey results today, Tuesday, July 5.

In addition to sampling electability, CiGMark also measures the level of public preference for 18 figures. "As a result, RK is the most prominent with a liking rate of 84.1 percent," said Setia.

As for the top of mind presidential election, continued Setia, if the presidential election were to be held at this time, five names would appear. Apart from Ridwan Kamil, there are other names, namely Joko Widodo (4.7 percent), Anies Baswedan (9.5 percent), Prabowo Subianto (11.7 percent), and Ganjar Pranowo (14.1 percent).

Not only that, RK also entered the top four when CiGMark conducted a survey related to the support mass base reaching 5.2 percent.

Of the 18 names of existing figures, Ganjar Pranowo, Prabowo Subianto, Anies Baswedan, and Ridwan Kamil who seem to have a strong supporter base," said Darma.

As for this survey, CiGMark uses a multistage random sampling methodology and is followed by 1,200 respondents. The margin of error reached 2.83 percent.