This Is the Reliable Source Young People Use to Find Political Information

Indonesian young people rely on various sources of information to understand the domestic political situation. The most common source is online news social media.

This is according to a national survey report by the Katadata Insight Center (KIC) titled *Politics in the Eyes of Young People: Perceptions and Trends of Gen Z & Millennials towards Presidential Candidates, Political Parties, and the 2024 Election Campaign*.

The proportion of young people who chose online news social media as a source was recorded at 80.4% of respondents.

The second most common source was television news, chosen by 44.6% of respondents. This was followed by online news portals, chosen by 36.6% of respondents.

Some respondents also sought political information on social media accounts of political channels (18.7%), while 17% of respondents sought information from print media.

Meanwhile, social media accounts of political actors such as presidential candidates, political parties, the president, and party chairmen received a smaller proportion, as shown in the attached graph.

The KIC survey involved 1,005 respondents proportionally distributed across Indonesia. The majority of respondents were from Java (54.4%), Sumatra (22.5%), and Sulawesi (7.8%). Respondents from Kalimantan, Bali-Nusa, and Maluku Papua ranged from 3.6% to 6.4%.

Respondents consisted of Gen Z (aged 17-26 years) (50.4%) and Millennials (aged 27-42 years) (49.6%). The gender breakdown was 60.6% male and 39.4% female respondents.

Data collection was conducted online from October 11-17, 2023, using tSurvey data collection with a non-probability sampling method. The survey has a margin of error of approximately 3.1% at a 95% confidence level.

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