Indonesian youth perceive corruption as damaging the meaning of politics.
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A Katadata Insight Center (KIC) survey found that 51.6% of young Indonesian respondents view politics negatively.
Details show that 8.8% of respondents rated politics as "very bad" and 42.8% rated it as "bad."
Respondents were also asked to choose one word that made them view politics negatively. Corruption was the most frequent response, cited by 31.3% of respondents.
"Corruption makes politics bad," wrote the KIC research team in their report.
Power was the second most frequent response (8.5%), followed by money politics (7.3%), lying (6.8%), and manipulative (6.2%).
Other words cited, each representing less than 6% of responses, included cheating, empty promises, bad/evil, unclear, incitement, inconsistency, deception, image-building, online influencers ("buzzer"), SARA issues (ethnicity, religion, race, and intergroup conflict), and polarization.
The survey on negative terminology in politics involved 518 respondents with mobile phones, representing Indonesia's demographics. The sample comprised 60.6% male and 39.4% female respondents.
The majority of respondents were from Java (54.4%), followed by Sumatra (22.5%) and Sulawesi (7.8%). Respondents from Kalimantan, Bali-Nusa Tenggara, and Maluku-Papua ranged from 3.6% to 6.4%.
Respondents consisted of 50.4% Gen Z (ages 17-26) and 49.6% millennials (ages 27-42).
Data collection was conducted online from October 11-17, 2023, using a non-probability sampling method.
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