Survey Indicators: Anies Baswedan And Ganjar Pranowo Many Young People Chosen As Presidents

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Political Indicator Survey Institute released the latest survey results regarding the choice of young people for President in the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres). As a result, the majority of respondents wanted DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan to become president.

Executive Director of Indonesian Political Indicators, Burhanuddin Muhtadi said, as many as 15.2 percent of young respondents chose the former Minister of Education and Culture.

Furthermore, in second place, the name of the Governor of Central Java, Ganjar Pranowo, was chosen by 13.7 percent of the respondents.

"The name with the absolute highest is Anies Baswedan at 15.2 percent. Ganjar 13.7 percent, the difference is insignificant," said Burhanuddin in his presentation of the survey entitled 'The National Survey of Youth Voices on National Socio-Political Issues' which was held online. , Sunday, March 21.

While in third position, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil was chosen by 10.2 percent of respondents; Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno as much as 9.8 percent; and followed by the name of the Minister of Defense Prabowo Subianto as many as 9.5 percent of respondents.

Burhanuddin then explained that Anies' votes came mostly from Prabowo-Sandi voters in the 2019 Presidential Election. Meanwhile, based on ethnicity and voting age, Anies received an average of 12 percent of Javanese votes.

"He received support among those who voted for Prabowo-Sandi in 2019 yesterday. Anies was quite good at getting 12.2 percent of Javanese young people," he explained.

Apart from the president, this institution also conducts a survey of the choice of political parties whose cadres are eligible to become representatives of the people in the DPR RI. The result, 42.8 percent of young people have not made a choice.

However, there are 16 percent of respondents who voted for the Gerindra Party to remain in parliament. Then, followed by PDIP as much as 14.2 percent as well as Golkar, PKS and Democrats each in the range of five percent.

"At present, more young people will not vote for political parties if the elections are held now. Among the existing parties, the choices are more on Gerindra and PDIP, then Golkar, PKS and Democrats. Other parties are less likely to be chosen by young people. , "Said Burhanuddin.

It is known that this survey was conducted using a simple random sampling method of 206,983. Respondents are randomly distributed throughout the archipelago and have been interviewed face-to-face in the last 2 years.

Meanwhile, the margin of error is around 2.9 percent with a confidence level of 95 percent. The survey was held in March 2018-2020. The total sample survey that was successfully interviewed was 1,200 respondents who were Indonesian citizens aged 17-21.