Australian Utting Research Survey Results: Ganjar Wins From Prabowo And Anies

Ganjar Pranowo (Photo via Central Java Provincial Government)

JAKARTA - The upcoming 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election is predicted to be very strict. Sigi results from Australia-based survey institute Utting Research in the 12-17 June 2023 period show that no candidate can be confirmed as the winner.

In the survey results, there are three Presidential Candidates (Readpres) that are currently being discussed, namely Ganjar Pranowo, Prabowo Subianto, and Anies Baswedan.

Each candidate managed to steal the attention with almost balanced electability. According to the survey, Ganjar Pranowo's electability reached 34 percent, followed by Prabowo Subianto with 33 percent, and Anies Baswedan with 27 percent.

Although the difference in electability between the three candidates is quite thin, this shows that the competition between them is very tight, and the situation can change ahead of the day of the presidential election.

"The 2024 presidential election in Indonesia is very interesting. Until eight months before the D-day, the winner is still very unclear. The three strongest contestants are still very balanced with electability," said Managing Director of Utting Research, John Utting, Friday, July 28.

Regarding questions about the vision and mission of presidential candidates desired by the public, the majority of respondents in this survey stated that they wanted to see the sustainability of President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) program with a number of improvements.

As many as 61 percent of respondents wanted the vision and mission of presidential candidates to continue part of Jokowi's government policies and improve some others.

On the other hand, about 20 percent of respondents believe that the new government should carry new policies and differ from the previous government.

"Meanwhile, another 18 percent said it was better to continue the current policies of the Jokowi government," he said.

The Utting Research survey was conducted face-to-face on 12-17 June 2023 involving 1,200 respondents who were spread proportionally in 34 provinces in Indonesia. The multi-stage random sampling method is used in this survey, with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.