Survey Results: 50.6 Percent Of Respondents Satisfied With Jokowi-Ma'ruf's Handling Of COVID-19

President Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Indo Barometer Survey Institute released the results of a poll on the performance of Joko Widodo-Ma'ruf Amin in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.

"As a result, 50.6 percent of respondents expressed satisfaction with Jokowi-Ma'ruf in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, 47.5 percent were dissatisfied, and 1.9 percent said they did not know or did not answer," said Executive Director of Indo Barometer, Mohammad Qodari, in a statement received by VOI on Thursday, November 5.

Qodari then explained the distribution of Jokowi-Ma'ruf satisfaction levels based on the distribution of respondents per major island in Indonesia. On the island of Java, 55 percent expressed satisfaction and 42.9 percent expressed dissatisfaction.

On the island of Sumatra, 34.9 percent expressed satisfaction and 62.6 percent were dissatisfied. On the island of Sulawesi, 54.7 percent were satisfied and 40.7 percent were dissatisfied.

On the island of Kalimantan, 48.7 percent expressed satisfaction and 50 percent expressed dissatisfaction. On the island of Papua-Maluku-NTB-NTT, 60.6 percent expressed satisfaction and 37.9 percent were dissatisfied.

The biggest reason respondents expressed satisfaction with the handling of COVID-19 in the Jokowi-Ma'ruf administration was fast and responsive handling, with a proportion of 21.3 percent.

"The next reason is the socialization of COVID-19 prevention with a proportion of 16.5 percent, then the handling of PSBB which is considered quite good is 14.5 percent, and various social assistance by 12 percent," said Qodari.

It is known that this survey was conducted in the period 10 to 17 October 2020 in 34 provinces. The data collection technique is in the form of face-to-face interviews with respondents using a questionnaire.

The survey method used was multistage random sampling to 1200 respondents. The margin of error is 2.83 percent with a confidence level of 95 percent.