Kompas Research and Development: Public Values the Importance of the Opposition in the House of Representatives

The public highlights the importance of a counterbalance group outside the government, or an opposition, in the House of Representatives (DPR) for the 2024-2024 period. This is to maximize inter-institutional oversight functions.

The presence of an opposition is considered crucial to prevent the dominance of any one state institution, especially the government. This is stated in a Kompas Research and Development report titled *The DPR Works with Public Aspirations*.

The survey shows that a majority, or 85.8% of respondents, consider the presence of an opposition or a party critical of the government coalition in the upcoming DPR to be important.

This proportion consists of 56.3% of respondents who stated it was important and 29.5% who said it was very important.

"Without an opposition, the public worries that the DPR's performance in overseeing the government's work could be disrupted," wrote Kompas Research and Development in its report on Tuesday (1/10/2024).

Conversely, 12.5% of respondents felt that the presence of an opposition in the government was unimportant. The details are: 3.9% considered it less important and 1.7% answered not important at all.

This Kompas Research and Development survey involved 1,200 respondents in 38 Indonesian provinces, selected randomly and proportionally.

Data collection was conducted from September 4-10, 2024, through telephone interviews. The survey's margin of error is approximately 2.83% with a 95% confidence level, under conditions of simple random sampling.