Index Survey: 67.9 Percent Fasting Jokowi's Performance, But Ma'ruf Amin Only 45.3 Percent

President Jokowi and Vice President Ma'ruf Amin during the inaugural plenary cabinet meeting at the Jakarta Presidential Palace, Thursday, October 24, 2019. (JAY-Setkab)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Index survey institute released a poll on public satisfaction with the performance of President Joko Widodo and Vice President Ma'ruf Amin. As a result, Jokowi's satisfaction with Jokowi's performance was quite high at 67.9 percent, which was dissatisfied at 29.7 percent, and 2.4 percent did not answer. Meanwhile, Ma'ruf Amin got the opposite assessment. Satisfaction with Ma'ruf's performance was only 45.3 percent, which was not satisfied higher at 48.2 percent, and 6.5 percent did not answer. "When compared to satisfaction with Jokowi, satisfaction with Ma'ruf Amin is quite low," said Deputy Executive Director of the Rikola Fedri Index in a survey presentation in the Central Jakarta area, Sunday, November 6. Then, the Indistat also revealed respondents' perceptions of the government's performance in dealing with a number of problems. The problem handling by the government which is considered the worst is to maintain stability in fuel prices with 70 percent of respondents who rated 70.6 percent not good, 26.8 percent considered it good, and 2.6 percent did not answer. The second problem is to maintain price stability of basic necessities with a 62.3 percent assessment of not good, 34.9 percent considered it good, and 2.6 percent did not answer. The third problem is to maintain the stability of cooking oil prices with a 52 percent assessment of bad, 44.8 percent considered it good, and 3.2 percent did not answer. From this condition, Rikola explained that the economic sector is still a priority issue to be handled immediately because the public thinks this issue has not been handled properly. "Some of the issues that have arisen before include rising basic food prices (sembako), rising fuel prices, LPG gas and the difficulty of job opportunities has attracted public attention to the government's poor performance in dealing with the economic sector, "explained Rikola. "Therefore, the economic sector must be a special concern from the central government so that economic stability and community welfare can improve again," he added. This survey was conducted on October 10-19 2022. A total of 1,200 respondents were randomly selected using the multistage random sampling method with a margin of error ± 2.8 percent at a 95 percent confidence level. Interviews were conducted face-to-face with interviewers who had been trained.