LPI Survey: 66 Percent Of Gen Z And Millennials Want PDIP To Be The Opposition Of The Prabowo-Gibran Government

Presidential Candidate Ganjar Pranowo together with PDIP (ANTARA) cadres

JAKARTA - The results of a recent survey from the Indonesian Voters Institute (LPI) show that generation Z (born 1997-2012) and millennials (born 1981-1996) hope that the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) will play an opposition role or be outside the Prabowo-Gibran administration in the future. They believe PDIP can be an effective balance against Prabowo-Gibran's government. Deputy Director of LPI, Ali Ramadan conveyed the survey results, as many as 60.4% of respondents support PDIP to be in opposition or reject reconciliation between PDIP and Gerindra. The details, 11.6% strongly disagree with reconciliation, 48.8% disagree, 17.2% agree, and 8.1% strongly agree, the rest do not provide answers. "The main reason that encourages Gen Z and millennials to be in opposition is to play a role as a political balancer in parliament, which is approved by the majority, namely 66.2%," said Ali in his statement, Wednesday, March 20. Meanwhile, for those who support reconciliation between PDIP and Gerindra, the majority (44,3%) argues that the move will reduce political instability in parliament and improve government stability in the period 2024-2029.

In addition, 21.2% of respondents think that both PDIP and Gerindra are influential major parties. Ali explained that these two parties, PDIP and Gerindra, have a significant influence on national politics, and both can contribute positively, both through coalitions and roles as constructive opposition. He added that Gen Z and millennials have an independent and critical view of political dynamics, including presidential elections, election implementation, and political reconciliation opportunities for the 2024-2029 administration.

Therefore, LPI conducts a special survey of this cluster because it tends to have independent and critical characteristics. The LPI national survey was conducted from March 12 to 18, 2024, to 1,300 Gen Z respondents (age 17-26 years) and millennials (age 27-42 years) who have voting rights on February 14, 2024. The margin of error from this survey is to average 2.97 at a 95 percent confidence level. The sampling technique used is stratified multistage random.