Survey: Paired With Ganjar Pranowo Or Anies Baswedan, Airlangga Hartarto, The Top Presidential Candidate

JAKARTA - The Color Survey Institute places the name of Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto as the top presidential candidate if paired with Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo and DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan.

Director of Colors at the Rinjani Institute, Dwi Harini, said that in the Airlangga-Ganjar simulation, the pair of candidates were chosen by most respondents with 40.8 percent. "If it is paired as a presidential and vice presidential candidate, it can be found from the survey results of the Airlangga Hartarto-Ganjar Pranowo pair being the most chosen couple with an electability rate of 40.8 percent," said Rinjani in his survey presentation, Thursday, September 1.

In this simulation, the second-ranked candidate is Prabowo Subianto-Muhaimin Iskandar with 20.1 percent. While in third place, the name of the pair Anies Baswedan-Puan Maharani was chosen as 16.2 percent of the 2,200 respondents.

Rinjani added, starting with three other names, Airlangga Hartarto paired with Anies Baswedan also became the most elected candidate. Airlangga-Anies was chosen by 32.4 percent of respondents.

While in second place, Prabowo Subianto-Andika Perkasa was chosen 31.1 percent, followed by Ganjar Pranowo-Puan Maharani with 20.3 percent.

Menurut Rinjani, kemenangan Airlangga ini didukung dengan elektabilitas Ketum Golkar yang tinggi dalam survei yang sama. Warna Institute menemukan, sebanyak 29.2 persen responden memilih Airlangga jika pilpres digelar saat survei.

In second place, the name of Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who is also the General Chair of the Gerindra Party, appeared 24.7 percent of respondents.

In the next order, the names of the TNI Commander General Andika Perkasa with 10.7 percent appeared, Ganjar Pranowo (6.2 percent), and Anies Baswedan (4.2 percent).

Airlangga's high electability is influenced by public assessments related to the performance of public figures. On the question "Which figures and programs are most felt to have an impact on people's lives?" Airlangga's name appears at the top with 79.4 percent of respondents' answers.

Airlangga Hartarto is considered a candidate for a presidential candidate whose policies and programs help the community a lot during the economic difficulties of his family due to the impact of COVID-19 and the handling of COVID-19. This is reflected in 79.4 percent of the respondents' responses," said Rinjani.

The name of Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto appeared in second place with 40.2 percent, and DPR Speaker Puan Maharani in third place with 40.2 percent. This finding also correlates with the level of respondents' satisfaction related to the policies of President Jokowi-Maruf Amin's Government.

The level of respondents' satisfaction with the government's performance in the economic sector (Airlangga Hartarto) reached 85.8 percent. Furthermore, 80.9 percent of respondents were also satisfied with the performance of the security sector, 80.2 percent were satisfied with the performance of the health sector, 74.9 percent were satisfied with the performance of the education sector, and 72.7 percent were satisfied with law enforcement.

The Color Institute Survey was held from 12 to 24 August 2022. This survey has a 95 percent confidence level with a margin of error of around 2.09 percent. Determination of the amount of data surveyed using the multistage random sampling method.