IPS Survey: Strategy To Attack Anies-Ganjar To Become Boomerang, Prabowo's Electability Soars 51.8 Percent

Debat capres pada Minggu, 7 Januari 2024/DOK ANTARA PHOTO-Aditya Pradana Putra)

JAKARTA - A survey from the Indonesia Polling Stations (IPS) assessed that the attacking strategy launched by the presidential candidates Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo backfired.

Director of Indonesian Research Polling Stations (IPS) Alfin Sugianto in his official statement, Tuesday, January 16, said that the two presidential candidates were increasingly losing public sympathy and their electability was decreasing.

Data obtained by IPS after the debate on January 7, as many as 51.8 percent of respondents chose the Prabowo-Gibran candidate pair. Anies-Muhaimin was chosen by 21.3 percent of respondents and Ganjar-Mahfud decreased electability by 19.7 percent.

Meanwhile, respondents who did not answer or did not make a choice were 7.7 percent.

The drop in the electability of the Anies-Muhaimin and Ganjar-Mahfud MD pairs, according to IPS analysis, has a correlation with the presidential candidate debate on January 7, 2024.

The level of public antipathy to the two is increasing, while the wave of public sympathy for Prabowo is getting stronger.

The IPS survey conducted a number of survey samples of 1,220 respondents in 38 provinces throughout Indonesia from January 7 to January 14, 2024.

The response was obtained through a multistage random sampling technique. The margin of error is approximately 2.8 percent, and at the level of confidence is 95 percent.

Meanwhile, data collection is carried out using telephone interview techniques (telepolling) by trained personnel with the help or questionnaire guidelines.