The Results Of The Jakarta Gubernatorial Election Survey Are Different, Persepi Will Ask LSI And Poltracking For Responsibility

Three candidate pairs in the Jakarta Pilkada, Ridwan Kamil-Suswono, Dharma Pongrekun-Kun Wardana Abyoto and Pramono Anung-Rano Karno during their inaugural debate at JIExpo Kemayoran, Jakarta, Sunday 6 October 2024. (ANTARA PHOTO-Aprillio Akbar)

JAKARTA - Differences in survey results regarding the electability of the candidate pair for Governor-Deputy Governor of Jakarta from the two survey institutions recently caused public surprise.

Following up on this, the Ethics Council of the Indonesian Public Opinion Survey Association (Persepi) will summon the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) and Poltracking Indonesia to clarify their survey findings.

"Because the results of their survey are different, we, the Persepi Ethics Council, will immediately have a meeting and summon the two institutions," said Member of the Perception Ethics Council, Saiful Mujani, quoted Friday, October 25.

Saiful explained, in this summons, LSI and Poltracking must be accountable for the findings of the survey they conducted. Perceptions will explore the causes of the differences between the two survey results. If the reason is not clear, a forensic audit will be carried out.

"If the two steps did not answer the problem, a survey would be carried out again by the Perpesi special team," said Saiful.

If carried out, the re-survey will be carried out jointly by LSI and Poltracking, as well as other Persepi members appointed by the Perception Ethics Council.

The Perpesi Ethics Council team consists of Asep Saefuddin from the Statistics Agency of the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Hamdi Muluk from the Faculty of Psychology, University of Indonesia (UI), and Saiful Mujani from the Faculty of State Islamic University (FISIP UIN) FISIP and the Founder of the SMRC Survey Institute.

Then, if the survey agency is proven to have explained inappropriate data, Saiful emphasized that it will be subject to sanctions, which will be removed from Perception. Then, Perceptions will issue a decision that the survey institution is not credible.

"Certainly if proven to have violated severe ethics, it can be expelled from the association and is not recommended to the public for use. We have twice imposed these severe sanctions on members. They were even expelled or released themselves before being issued," he said.

For information, in the LSI survey conducted on October 10-17, Pramono-Rano's electability was recorded at 41.6 percent, then Ridwan Kamil-Suswono at 37.4 percent, and Dharma Pongrekun-Kun Wardana at 6.6 percent.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian Poltracking survey conducted on October 10-16 explained that the electability of RK-Suswono was at 51.6 percent, followed by Pramono-Rano at 36.4 percent and Dharma-Kun at 3.9 percent.