Many citizens believe that party leaders should have prior careers within the party.

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Cindy Mutia Annur 20/10/2023 13:38 WIB

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Respondents' Perceptions of Leaders' Need for Political Party Careers (October 2023)

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Kaesang Pangarep was appointed as the General Chairperson of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) at the National Kopi Darat event at the Djakarta Theater on Monday, September 25, 2023. He led the party just two days after officially becoming a member.

Kaesang's election as party chairman sparked diverse public responses. Especially since the youngest son of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) previously had no career in political parties.

So, what is the perception of Indonesian society regarding the determination of political party leadership?

According to a survey by the Kurious-Katadata Insight Center (KIC), the majority of respondents, or 85.5%, believe that party leaders or chairmen should have a prior career in political parties.

Meanwhile, only 14.5% of respondents disagreed that party leaders should have a prior career in political parties.

Apart from that, PSI claims that 23,000 new members have joined the party since Kaesang took the helm.

Kaesang Pangarep suspects that his young age, 28 years old, becoming a political party member and subsequently the chairman, has led tens of thousands of people to join PSI.

"Perhaps this gives hope to people out there that young people can enter politics," said Kaesang, as reported by Tempo.co on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

The Kurious-KIC survey was conducted on 661 respondents with a distribution representing the demographic population of regions in Indonesia, with 51.7% male and 48.3% female respondents.

More than half of the respondents were from Java Island excluding Jakarta (66.9%), followed by Jakarta (13.5%), and Sumatra (12.3%). The proportion of respondents from Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali-Nusa Tenggara, and Maluku-Papua ranged from 0.2% to 2.6%.

Most respondents were aged between 25-34 years (37.8%), followed by the 35-44 years (27.5%) and 45-54 years (16.8%) groups.

The survey was conducted from October 6-9, 2023, using the computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI) method, with a margin of error of approximately 3.81% and a 95% confidence level.

Editor : Erlina Fury Santika

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