SMRC Survey Proves, Majority Of Residents Reject Jokowi To Run For 2024 Presidential Election

DOK Secretariat/President Jokowi

JAKARTA - The results of the latest Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) national survey show that the majority of Indonesians do not agree that Jokowi will run again in the 2024 presidential election.

"About 52.9 percent said they disagreed, while 40.2 percent agreed," said SMRC Researcher and Director of Communications Ade Armando in the launch of the results of the SMRC national survey entitled "National Public Attitudes towards Presidentialism and DPD Amendments", quoted Antara, Sunday, June 20.

The SMRC survey also shows that the majority of citizens (74 percent) want the stipulation on a two-term presidential term to be maintained.

"Those who want the presidential term to be changed are only 13 percent, and 13 percent who don't have an attitude," said Ade.

According to Ade, this finding shows that the narrative that is carried by certain groups so that President Jokowi can fight again in the 2024 presidential election by changing the provisions of the 1945 Constitution which limits the presidential term, is not supported by the majority of Indonesians.

"Indeed, support for the idea of re-nominating Jokowi as president seems quite high, which is around 40 percent," said Ade.

However, he continued, the percentage was still significantly lower than those who considered Jokowi to have served twice, which reached 53 percent.

Moreover, Ade added, 74 percent of the population stated that there was no need for any changes in the limitation of the presidential term of office. He saw Jokowi's effect on the public's attitude.

"At the basic level, 74 percent of the public want only two terms as president. However, when Jokowi's name was offered to run again in the 2024 presidential election, many wavered. Initially, 74 percent rejected two terms, to 59.2 percent," explained Ade.

He said the majority of highly educated citizens rejected the idea of Jokowi's re-nomination in the 2024 presidential election.

"About 75 percent of people with tertiary education reject the nomination, and only 20 percent support it," he said.

According to Ade, there are different views between groups of different educational backgrounds, incomes and religions in terms of support and rejection of the idea.

Judging from educational background, there are 75 percent of residents with a tertiary education level who reject Jokowi's re-nomination as a presidential candidate in 2024, while only 45 percent of residents with elementary education also reject the idea.

Judging from the level of income, there are 62 percent of residents with incomes above IDR 2 million/month who reject the idea of re-nominating Jokowi.

Meanwhile, only 43 percent of the people who earn less than Rp. 1 million/month also reject the idea.

The SMRC national survey was conducted on May 21-28, 2021. The research through face-to-face interviews involved 1072 respondents who were selected through a multistage random sampling method with a research margin of error of around 3.05 percent.