The Results Of This Survey Institute Call The Handling And Superior Labor Prabowo To Become A 2024 Presidential Candidate

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JAKARTA - The results of the Political Weather Station (PWS) survey show that farmer groups, laborers, and unemployed have favored the Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto as a presidential candidate (candidate) in the 2024 election.

According to senior PWS researcher Sharazani, in a written statement received in Jakarta, the three groups referred to as the little people or the small people favored Prabowo as a presidential candidate because they were considered capable of making the people's economy better.

"They predict Prabowo as a presidential candidate who has the ability to make the people's economy better. Therefore, as many as 62.5 percent of respondents believe Prabowo is able to make Indonesia's economic condition better than it is now," Sharazani said in a statement, Tuesday, November 15.

Furthermore, he conveyed that based on the results of a survey from PWS conducted on November 4-11, 2022, Prabowo's electability or electability level in farmer groups was superior with 56.2 percent of support. Meanwhile, 38.3 percent of respondents chose other candidates and 5.4 percent answered they did not know.

"The experience as General Chair of the Indonesian Farmers Harmony Association (HKTI) turned out to make Prabowo's name already close to the hearts of the farmers," said Sharazani, released by Antara.

Next among the workers, Prabowo's electability reached 51.3 percent, while another 44.3 percent chose other names and 4.4 percent did not answer.

"Prabowo Subianto seems to be also the hope of the workers to raise their welfare if the General Chairperson of the Gerindra Party DPP is elected President of the Republic of Indonesia," said Sharazani.

Furthermore, from the unemployed, the results of the PWS survey showed that the electability rate of the General Chairperson of the Gerindra Party DPP reached 54.8 percent, while 40.5 percent of other respondents chose other presidential candidates and 4.7 percent did not answer.

According to Sharazani, people who are still unemployed tend to vote for Prabowo because they hope that the Minister of Defense can create more jobs.

On the same occasion, Sharazani also said that in the survey there were 29.5 percent of closed questions regarding voter preferences for the eleven presidential candidates who were offered, Prabowo won the highest support, namely 29.5 percent. Next, followed by the Governor of Central Java Ganjar Pranowo with 20.9 percent of support, and the former Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan 19.8 percent.

Furthermore, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil (7.5%), Democratic Party Chairman Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono or AHY (4.2%), SOE Minister Erick Thohir (3.9%), and Presidential Chief of Staff, Moeldoko (3.8%).

Then, there are also Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno (2.8%), Chairman of the House of Representatives Puan Maharani (2.1%), Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto (2%), and Chairman of PKB Muhaimin Iskandar (1.1%).

"Meanwhile, 2.4 percent of respondents answered they didn't know," said Sharazani.

In the survey, PWS involved 1,200 Indonesian citizens who had the right to vote and spread across 34 provinces as respondents. The selection of respondents was carried out using systematic random sampling techniques.

Next, they were interviewed by telephone with questionnaire guidelines. The fault tolerance for this survey is around 2.83 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.

Regarding the candidacy, since the enactment of Law Number 42 of 2008 concerning the General Election of the President and Vice President (UU Pilpres), there is a threshold for presidential and vice presidential submissions from political parties in the DPR or a presidential threshold of at least 20 percent.

Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections article 222 reads A candidate pair proposed by a political party or coalition of political parties participating in the election who meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the total seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of the nationally valid votes in the previous election for members of the DPR."

Currently, based on the vote acquisition in the 2019 Election, out of 575 political party seats available in the DPR, the PDI-P managed to get 128 seats (22, 26 percent), Golkar 85 seats (14 percent), Gerindra 78 seats (13.57 percent), NasDem 59 seats (10.26 percent), PKB 58 seats (10.09 percent).

Next, Democratic Party 54 seats (9.39 percent), PKS 50 seats (8.7 percent), PAN 44 seats (7.65 percent), and PPP 19 seats (3.3 percent).