Electability Rises In SMRC Survey, Cak Imin Target PKB Runner-up In 2024 Election

PKB General Chair Muhaimin Iskandar while speaking at the Workshop 'Satukan Attitude Rebut Kemenangan 2024: PKB Kahiji, Gus Muhaimin Ngahiji Prung Gus Muhaimin' in Bandung, West Java. (Doc. PKB)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin responded to the results of the latest survey by Saiful Mujani Research Center (SMRC) which placed his party in third place after PDIP and Gerindra. Cak Imin also targets PKB to become runner-up or second place in the 2024 General Election because it is said that PKB electability tends to increase. "Our target is at least the second place in the 2024 election," said Cak Imin to reporters, Monday, March 20. Cak Imin asked all PKB cadres to work hard so that the findings in the survey can be realized. Moreover, he said, PKB is eyeing victory in East Java so that it can contribute to the 2024 presidential election. "The survey is proof, don't be careless, don't be negligent, don't be satisfied, don't be complacent, we have to work hard to prove that PKB can win 2 in the 2024 election," said Cak Imin. "For East Java, our survey is also very high but it has not yet reached the target. We want it to be in 2024, PKB in East Java up to 30 percent of the minimum victory so that we can determine the future direction of East Java in the future. Contributing in the presidential election and our political atmosphere," he added. Previously, Saiful Mujani Research Center (SMRC) released the results of a survey on the electability level of political parties (parpol) ahead of the 2024 General Election. PDI Perjuangan (PDIP) was in first place followed by Gerindra and PKB. PDIP's electability rose from 19.3 percent to 23.4 percent compared to the 2019 election results. Even with Gerindra which rose slightly from 12.6 percent to 14.1 percent. "PKB is also experiencing a slight strengthening from 9.7 percent to 10.3 percent," said SMRC Research Director Deni Irvani, in a survey presentation on Sunday, March 19. Meanwhile, parliamentary parties such as PPP and PAN did not reach 4 percent. "Meanwhile, other parties have received lower support from the 2019 election. The electability of most parties has not yet recovered," he added. It is known, in fourth position occupied by Golkar 9.1 percent, fifth NasDem 7 percent, Sixth Democrat 5.9 percent, seventh PKS 5.7 percent, eighth PPP 2.4 percent and ninth PAN 1.9 percent. The SMRC survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews on March 2-11, 2023. The population of this survey is all Indonesian citizens who have the right to vote in the general election, namely those who are 17 years old or older, or are married when the survey is conducted. From that population, 1,220 respondents were chosen randomly (strateted multistage random sampling). The response rate (respondents who can be interviewed validly) was 1,061 or 87 percent which was then analyzed. The survey margin of error with the sample size is estimated at ± 3.1 percent at a 95 percent confidence level (symple random sampling assumption).