Vixpoll Survey: Society Rejects Extension Of President's Term

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JAKARTA - The majority of survey respondents rejected the discourse of increasing the presidential term to three terms. Following that, the issue of limited amendments to the 1945 Constitution returned.

This is based on the results of a survey released online by the Vixpoll Indonesia survey agency, Monday, August 23.

"The result was that 57.5 percent disagreed and strongly disagreed with the amendments so that the president served more than 2 terms," said Executive Director of Vixpoll Indonesia, Mohammad Anas RA.

Meanwhile, 11.4 percent said they agreed and strongly agreed. While as many as 12.6 percent of other respondents answered they did not know or did not answer.

Then, respondents also did not agree with the amendment to the 1945 Constitution to increase the presidential term of office by more than 5 years.

"61 percent answered that they did not agree and strongly disagreed that the presidential term of office was increased or more by 5 years," said Anas.

"Only 7.9 percent agreed and strongly agreed and 12.7 percent did not answer or did not know," he continued.

The survey was conducted on 16-27 July 2021 involving 1,240 respondents who were interviewed face-to-face.

The sampling method is multistage random sampling with an error tolerance of less than 2.89 percent and a confidence level of 95 percent.