Decisiveness: The Biggest Reason Citizens Want to Choose Prabowo-Gibran

The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) survey results show that decisiveness is the main reason Indonesian respondents chose the second candidate pair (paslon), Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka, in the 2024 Presidential Election.

The proportion of supporters choosing this reason reached 18.1%. The next largest reason was simply "liking them," chosen by 16.6%.

Respondents also assessed Prabowo-Gibran as the most capable leaders (6.8%). This candidate pair was also considered capable of continuing Jokowi's leadership (6.7%).

Prabowo's background and position as a retired Lieutenant General of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, with 28 years of military experience, proved attractive to 6.2% of his supporting respondents.

Other reasons included being convincing, honest, down-to-earth, and following the choices of family or neighbors, with proportions shown in the attached graph.

This LSI survey also shows that Prabowo-Gibran's voters reached 47% of the total respondents in January 2024. This electability increased from the previous survey, which stood at 45.6% in December 2023.

The LSI survey method generally uses double sampling, which is a random sampling from a collection of data from previous face-to-face surveys.

A total of 210,001 respondents, randomly distributed throughout Indonesia, were previously interviewed face-to-face. On average, about 70% of them have phone numbers. A random sample of 14,870 data points was selected for telephone interviews, and 1,206 respondents were successfully interviewed during the survey period.

These telephone interviews were conducted on January 10-11, 2024. The survey's margin of error is estimated at 2.9% at a 95% confidence level, assuming simple random sampling.

The following are the reasons citizens chose Prabowo-Gibran based on the LSI survey from January 10-11, 2024:

* Decisive, brave, authoritative 18.1%
* Simply like them 16.6%
* Most capable of leading 6.8%
* Continuing Jokowi's leadership 6.7%
* Military background 6.2%
* Most convincing 4.6%
* Honest, trustworthy, reliable 4.3%
* Wanting change 3.9%
* Proven track record 2.7%
* Supported by Jokowi 2.5%
* Understands the people's needs 1.8%
* Experienced 1.7%
* Intelligent, broad-minded 1.1%
* Following the choice of neighbors 1.0%
* Supported by my preferred party 0.9%
* Following family's choice 0.6%
* Following community leader's guidance 0.6%
* Down-to-earth, likes visiting the people 0.5%
* Young 0.4%
* Jokowi's child 0.2%
* Javanese 0.1%
* Other 14.2%
* Don't know/didn't answer 4.5%

(Also read: Prabowo Receives the Most Negative Sentiment in the Final Presidential Debate, Anies the Most Positive)