Key Issues to Advocate for Ahead of the Simultaneous Regional Elections 2024
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Simultaneous Regional Head Elections (Pilkada) will be held on November 27, 2024.
During this event, Indonesian citizens will elect regional heads, including governors and their deputies, regents and their deputies, and mayors and their deputies.
According to a survey by the Katadata Insight Center (KIC), the most important issue raised by current regional head candidates is job creation.
Other issues widely considered important are health and social welfare guarantees (kesra), affordable staple food prices, and increased public income.
Some also pay more attention to issues such as affordable education costs, access to public transportation, democracy and freedom of expression, the environment, entrepreneurship support, and others, as shown in the graph.
KIC conducted this survey with 7,864 respondents spread across 8 provinces: North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Banten, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, and South Sulawesi.
All respondents were over 17 years old and had mobile phone numbers, taken from the Telkomsel tSurvey population.
The survey was conducted online from May 3-9, 2024, using a non-probability sampling method, with a margin of error of 1.1% and a 95% confidence level.
The complete KIC survey report can be accessed at [this link](https://databoks.katadata.co.id/publikasi/2024/06/06/survei-persepsi-publik-terhadap-pilkada-di-8-provinsi).
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