Electability Overtakes Ganjar-Mahfud In Indicator Survey, Anies: I Often Say, This Is Dynamic

Presidential Candidate Anies Baswedan (Timnas Amin)

Presidential candidate number 1, Anies Baswdan, responded to the results of a survey by Indonesian Political Indicators regarding the electability of presidential and vice presidential candidates in January 2024. As a result, Anies-Muhaimin Iskandar's electability figure overtook Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, which is now down in third position. Meanwhile, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka still achieved the highest electability. According to Anies, the trend of public support for presidential and vice-presidential candidates will continue to move over time until voting day. So, Anies is not surprised if his electability increases from the previous conditions he is often in the last position. "Actually, I often say, right. This is dynamic. I was asked about this survey, starting last year. January, February, until the end of the year I was also asked. Now January is also asked," said Anies in South Jakarta, Thursday, January 18. The former governor of DKI Jakarta claims that more people want changes to governance. This was seen by Anies from his meeting with residents during the campaign. "People have a lot of business and not everyone thinks about the presidential election. We are sure, the closer the day, the more people think about the presidential election, the more people feel they need to change. So that's why we are optimistic," explained Anies. For information, Indonesian Political Indicators released the electability of the presidential and vice presidential candidate pairs in the 2024 presidential election. As a result, candidate pair number 2, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka, won from two other candidate pairs with an electability rate of 45.79 percent. While candidate pair number 1, Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar are in second place with an electability rate of 25.47 percent. Meanwhile, Paslon number 3, Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD is in third place with 22.96 percent. "Prabowo-Gibran excels significantly from Anies-Muhaimin and Ganjar-Mahfud," said the Executive Director of the Indonesian Political Indicators Survey Institute, Burhanuddin Muhtadi. Burhanuddin said there was a stagnation in the electability of the Prabowo-Gibran pair from the results of the previous survey. Meanwhile, Anies-Imin, experienced an increase and the Ganjar-Mahfud trend decreased. "This is a survey before the third presidential candidate debate. So if we compare it, compared to last month's survey, electability stagnation occurred for couples 02. There is positive dynamics Anies Baswedan up to 25 percent, negative trend 03 is still continuing," he said. The Indonesian Political Indicators Survey was held from December 30 to January 6 before the third debate of the 2024 presidential election. The survey involved a base of 1,200 people from all provinces of Indonesia through face-to-face interviews.

In addition to 1,200 samples, Political Indicators also added respondents in 13 provinces, namely Aceh, North Sumatra, South Sumatra, Lampung, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, Banten, Bali, NTT, North Sulawesi, and South Sulawesi. So that the total respondents became 4,560. Assuming the stratified random sampling method, the base sample size is 4,560 respondents have a margin of error of 2 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.