The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) released a survey report titled "Presidential Election Competition Map and Public Attitudes Towards National Issues" on Tuesday (July 11, 2023).
According to the report, at the beginning of July 2023, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) remained the political party with the strongest electability, far surpassing other parties.
"The others competing closely are PKS, Golkar, PKB, Nasdem, Democrat, and Perindo. Interestingly, the competition is quite tight in their numbers," said LSI Executive Director Djayandi Hanan in a press conference on his official YouTube account, Tuesday (July 11, 2023).
PDI-P's electability has strengthened. In the LSI January 2023 survey, this party, led by Megawati, was chosen by 21.9% of respondents. Then, in the July 2023 survey, its electability rose to 23.7%.
Meanwhile, the electability of the Democratic Party weakened, from 7.1% in January 2023 to 4.4% in July 2023.
The weakening of the Democratic Party was accompanied by a strengthening of the electability of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).
In January 2023, PKS was chosen by 5% of respondents, then rose to 6.2% in July 2023. As a result, PKS soared to third place at the beginning of this month.
Referring to the parliamentary threshold for the 2024 Legislative Election (Pileg), with a minimum electability of 4%, in July 2023, 10 political parties did not meet this threshold, as seen in the graph above.
However, in July 2023, 21.9% of respondents had not yet decided on their choice.
This survey was conducted by LSI on Indonesian citizens aged 17 years and older or who are married and own a mobile phone.
Sample selection was conducted using the random digit dialing (RDD) method, until 1,241 respondents were successfully interviewed.
Data collection was carried out from July 1-8, 2023, using telephone interview methods. This survey has a margin of error of approximately 2.8% with a 95% confidence level.
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